Does your company have any diversity hiring rules?

1 points by 2oMg3YWV26eKIs ↗ HN
Hiring with diversity in mind can be implemented in many ways. One example is the Rooney Rule [1]:

>The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. It is an example of affirmative action, even though there is no hiring quota or hiring preference given to minorities, only an interviewing quota.

Another example is the Mansfield rule [2]:

>The Mansfield Rule measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered (at least 30 percent of the candidate pool) historically underrepresented lawyers for leadership and governance roles, equity partner promotions, and lateral positions.

I am curious if the companies you work for do anything similar? I work at a tech company that has between 1,000 - 2,000 employees. We have a hiring / recruiting rule that says we must have at least 2 candidates in the phone screen stage from underrepresented backgrounds (defined as Black, LatinX, Native American, or women / non-binary). There are a handful of exceptions to our rule. One example is that if 3 or fewer people are given a phone screen, only 1 of them must be from an underrepresented background.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule#Outside_sports

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