HACKER Q&A
📣 throwawaynay

Would you be interested in a database of companies demographics?


(First of all I'm not trying to start a heated debate between woke and conservative people, just trying to see if a website like this might interest some of you, or if you think it might be useful to some people, please keep this civil)

When I'm trying to decide if a company is worth working for(or worth supporting) I often find myself looking at their list of employees to find any red flags.

Is there an unusually small number of people of color? Is there few women? What kind of people are in charge?(whether at the C-level or managers)

Now of course I don't expect a statically perfect representation of minorities, given all the socioeconomic differences, but if I see 0(or 1)person of color in a +100 people company, I'll probably think that it's very fishy, and it happens more than you think.

Now I'm thinking of a tool that could give you detailed statistics about almost any company:

-percentage of employees/managers/executives who are: PoC, women, middle-aged/seniors, LGBTQ+

-how likely each of these groups are to get promoted

-turnover rate for each of these groups

I know that this will probably be hard to implement well, but I'm confident I can do it.

I think it could be very useful to some people, to find "healthy" workplaces where they're truly accepted/valued, not just tolerated, and where they have a fair chance of growing as fast as others.

What do you think?


  👤 soueuls Accepted Answer ✓
I would find it useful as well, hard to implement though.

I would pretty much use it on the opposite spectrum, if a company has too much diversity compared to the normal demographics, that’s a red flag for me. The company is implementing non meritocratic/scientific process to hire their employees, I am not interested to join.

Regardless of your values, having more information is rarely a bad idea.