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> The part that doesn't make sense to me is... what does Palantir have to gain by discriminating? A very good question: What does any company, or any person, h
by hackuser 10y ago
> The part that doesn't make sense to me is... what does Palantir have to gain by discriminating?
A very good question: What does any company, or any person, have to gain by discriminating?
Yet, many do.
- munchbunny 10y agoWell, yes, which was why I thought of unintentional "culture fit" bias as the reason, because that's certainly the case in many other situations. But for a company Palantir's size, I would expect the law of large numbers to push hiring preferences towards being more or less representative of the industry, after controlling for things like security clearances and other domain specific issues. The missing piece of information to me is whether there really is something wrong with their company culture that would cause hiring preferences to deviate away from "generally average in the aggregate."
- hackuser 10y agoMy point is that, while I agree with you that it's self-destructive, it is so prevalent that clearly many people don't agree with us and believe they can accurately judge people by their race.
- dnautics 10y agothey do a lot of government contracting, and government contract awards often want you to have population-proportional hiring, to show you aren't racist.