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In the context of "diversity", which is taken to imply increasing the population of currently-underrepresented groups in the industry, responding with "just hir
by ubernostrum 10y ago
In the context of "diversity", which is taken to imply increasing the population of currently-underrepresented groups in the industry, responding with "just hire the best" only makes sense if one believes those groups do not by definition contain "the best", since otherwise everyone who already claims to "hire the best" would have hired from those groups.
- flukus 10y agoIt's in the context of hiring though, "the best" means "the best available".
- ubernostrum 10y agoNo, it means "the best we're willing to hire". I work in an office full of people who kick ass but wouldn't make it past the phone screen at most "hire the best" places. Their loss is our gain.
- aantix 10y agoMoney in Silicon Valley knows no prejudice. One of the companies that I consulted for offered 10K placement bonuses if you could recommend an engineer that stayed for just three months. This idea that there's a group of hidden engineers just waiting to discovered and included, that they just haven't been shown a company that cares, that somehow if we just went to the right unrepresented areas or schools or groups they would be there they'd be waiting to add millions to the bottom line... Just isn't true. If you're not showing off your skills, putting yourself out there with code, meetups, conferences, then no, you're not one of the best. Engineers can self-delude themselves all day in their cubicle with how clever their code is, but if you're not sharing it with the world then you're not doing enough to be included in the best.
- pj_mukh 10y ago"Money in Silicon Valley knows no prejudice." Most of the money is very dumb and extremely prejudiced. Listening to women talk about fundraising is horrifying.