We received a lot of strong applications for our Senior Front-end role at @Mastodon, but @inga_nomads and I would like to see more diverse candidates in our initial pool. Do you know of any communities (forum, Slack, Discord, newsletter…) with a diverse audience and a focus on front-end […] - ThreadSky

renchap.oisaur.com.ap.brid.gy • 43 days ago

We received a lot of strong applications for our Senior Front-end role at @Mastodon, but @inga_nomads and I would like to see more diverse candidates in our initial pool.

Do you know of any communities (forum, Slack, Discord, newsletter…) with a diverse audience and a focus on front-end […]

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exterm.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@katerberg do you have any pointers?

starrwulfe.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap I wish I the front end skills needed here.
Let me know when there’s a devops position available!

kizu.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap Small note: your post says it is in French, so people who did set up their clients to not show languages they do not understand might not see this one as well (although, I am not sure how this works when boosting? but still, for a better reach it would be better for the post's language […]

renchap.oisaur.com.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@kizu good catch, thanks!

meganmariehart.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap
Ouch. I guess that means the criticism was justified after all.

sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads oh gah, if only I had a couple more years under my belt.

There are definitely more diverse front end developers out there! Will boost :)

sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads as for communities, I've posted the position to Front-End Horse (discord), and I'm part of front-end.social, maybe my boost will get it to more of the people on the same instance.

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads please check out my comments later in the thread about how you might take into account the degree of difficulty via achievement relative to opportunity when deciding who to interview.

Because if you have more diverse candidates apply but you only interview non-diverse […]

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads chest in case you were interested here is an example of what I have done in terms of improving diversity in an international recruitment scenario […]

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads

I'll be talking about this at ORDEM in February as well as helping NUMFOCUS with their DEI Handbook

Here are the foundational slides I'll be using at ORDEM if you are interested:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGbFw2Lbs4/tooEX9eg--3N4GmHii-lCA/view

james-inthe-box.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@renchap @inganomads @Mastodon Is the focus on hiring someone qualified, or someone diverse? Honestly just curious.

thanius.mastodon.chuggybumba.com.ap.brid.gy•36 days ago

@james_inthe_box What kind of question is that? The focus is to find someone qualified without making it a white sausage party.

@renchap @inganomads @Mastodon

fedi.wake.st•43 days ago

@james_inthe_box @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon this is a shitty reply. The goal is obviously to hire someone both qualified and diverse but nice of you to show your opinion to the world

james-inthe-box.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@liaizon @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon But...what if you don't find someone who meets both? Does the hiring company just choose one or the other? Or just not hire at all?
That's my question...I honestly have no idea how this works...I'm just a nerd who plays with malware and does engineering […]

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@james_inthe_box @liaizon @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon

I wrote a while website about this....

https://www.practicaldiversity.org/

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@james_inthe_box @liaizon @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon basically the idea is to take into account achievement relative to opportunity.

You can do this by applying a weighting to applications to take into account the degree of difficulty that the applicant faces by being part of a […]

rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@james_inthe_box @liaizon @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon the simplest example I can think of is measuring the times of a marathon when one person runs the distance on a flat course, another person runs the same distance on an extremely hilly course.

You have to take into account the degree of […]

james-inthe-box.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@rowlandm @liaizon @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon Brilliant..thanks Rowland!

swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy•42 days ago

@james_inthe_box @renchap @inganomads @Mastodon I would imagine it hard to be qualified for this job, designing a front end to something that will fail if it is not usable, safe and even enjoyable for a hugely diverse user base, if your life experience is at the narrow peak of the pyramid of […]

Flyingmana.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy•43 days ago

@james_inthe_box @renchap
you make it sound like this can not be both true at the same time.
Which as for sure your friends will confirm, makes you sound a bit not-nice

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