Coaching Guide, Developer Happiness Index, and Gender and Race in Hiring

• Coaching Guide

• Developer Happiness Index

• Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals

Coaching Guide

A short coaching guide based on the book “The Tao of Coaching”. GROW and the Skill/Will Matrix (below) can help you better structure your 1:1s and career development conversations.

https://learn.garimpo.io/coaching/

Developer Happiness Index

It is a good read but you won’t find many surprises on Honeypot’s Developer Happiness Index. The top 5 developer happiness indicators by importance are:

• Work-life balance

• Learning opportunities

• Healthcare

• Work environment

• Safety

https://cult.honeypot.io/developer-happiness-index/global-insights

Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals

An interesting paper on gender and race in the hiring process. Based on Applicant Tracking System data from 8 Silicon Valley Tech companies (“dataset contains 896k applicants across 6,113 job openings spanning 5 years from 2014 to 2018”).

While gender diversity in Tech is far from a solved problem, this paper points to some results of D&I initiatives in these 8 Tech companies - e.g. “women are 9-10% more likely to receive a callback compared to men”. It also highlights a lag in diversity initiatives aimed at other groups - e.g. “Black, Hispanic, and Asian applicants are 8-13% less likely to receive a callback compared to White applicants”.

“The demand-for-diversity argument may provide a plausible explanation for the outcome gap in favor of women. Turning to race, however, we document some results that seem counterintuitive to this argument: non-White applicants are less likely to receive callback compared to White applicants, and that these outcome gaps are unlikely to cancel-out in the later stages.”

https://ssrn.com/abstract=3672484

Etymological Fun Fact

Happy, perhaps, and happen are descendants of the Middle English term hap meaning "chance, a person's luck, fortune, or fate."