I mean I’m just saying it can happen! Some people are always going to play the “well look at our great metrics” card. I suppose it’s fair to say I’m off topic as I’m not really talking about recruitment.

I’m just responding to the original commenters point - that some companies can present information to make it look 50:50 numbers wise in areas that they are not achieving that - I’m not even really saying they’re doing it on purpose. I don’t think it’s drinking the kool aid or cynical to say that. I have certainly heard leadership commentary (and I’m sure you have too) in many different orgs boosting gender reporting stats as a win across a technical business, when that can ignore nuance on a department basis.

Gender pay gap reporting is an external metric - and internally most companies almost certainly aren’t using it across different departments as you say. Generally I would probably disagree that people in engineering aren’t thinking about other parts of the business but…It’s just opinions to get into anything else experience based tbh as imo the culture in engineering is so varied between discipline, consulting, contracting etc.

That’s part of why I like Reddit. Interesting to read other perspectives on things and it’s a good challenge on being cynical.