They Wanted To Eliminate Gender Bias In Technical Hiring But Ended Up Losing All Their Female Candidates.

One of our most recent seed investments recently posed a question to me. They had designed a technical hiring process to try and eliminate gender bias but were losing all the women midway through their funnel when a take-home project was introduced. What was going wrong?

I reviewed their current approaches alongside Homebrew’s Head of Talent Beth Scheerand we made a few recommendations, but there was nothing glaringly broken. Attention then turned to the…