I have stumbled upon the databricks leadership team page by chance: https://databricks.com/company/leadership-team.<p>My surprise was that the entire team of 15 is composed only by male persons.<p>Until now I have only noticed big companies advocating gender diversity.<p>Is there a specific reason why this doesn't happen also in smaller companies ?
1) Smaller companies are under less scrutiny than larger companies. "Databricks has an all-male leadership team!" isn't a good headline when hardly anyone knows who they are. I don't know who they are, and I'm a dev who's frequently on HN.<p>2) Larger companies have interviewed, hired, and fired more people, so they've had a lot more chances to recognize and promote female talent.<p>3) Larger companies are more attractive targets for discrimination, which is amplified by #2.<p>If a company has 10,000 employees and has been around for 10 years, it looks really bad for them to have no female leadership. In that time, they'd <i>have</i> to have run into a talented woman and overlooked her because they'd have received hundreds of thousands of job applications.<p>All that said, it's idiotic to have a 15-person leadership team and have so little diversity. It turns prospective employees off and reduces chances of success (kind of like having a baseball team comprised entirely of pitchers).