Tech firms' diversity gap: quick solution is to fix hiring process

I AM the co-founder of a company that helps clients find ways to diversify their workforce. We recently set up an interview at a major company for a senior African-American woman software engineer. After meeting with the hiring panel, she withdrew her application, telling us that she felt demeaned by the all-white male group that failed to ask her any questions about her coding skills. She described how one of the men had made it clear to her that she wasn't a cultural fit and that therefore they didn't need to proceed with technical questions.

I hear stories like this regularly, as I work with companies in Silicon Valley and beyond th…