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Ask HN: Why companies ask if I'm latino?
Hi, been aplying to jobs and A LOT, about 80%-90% of them have a SPECIFIC dropdown where I have to answer that yes, I'm latino.
Why?
- draw_down 10y agoDiversity goals
- owebmaster 10y agoAnd then if you mark it you are not going to be selected because they are going to find 100s of problems to not hire you, because they can't hire you only by being latino, you know? Records (the trend of diversity not moving the needle) and testimonials show that it is more difficult to join a company as black/latino when they try specifically to find "great developers" that coincidentally are black/latinos.
- draw_down 10y agoUh, OK. I'm just saying why they do that
- owebmaster 10y agoI know! That is why I answered your reply, not directly to the OP :)
- throwawayspic 10y agoI just find it odd that it's the only race checkbox, but only for latinos, not for chinese, ukranian, african, japanese, etc...
- huevosabio 10y agoWhile Caucasians, Asians, blacks and so on are more clear cut races (for some definition of it), Latinos are more of an ethnicity (it involves cultural components). Thus, a latino may also be white, Asian, black, etc. At least that's my understanding of it.
- throwawayspic 10y agothanks and what a funny username
- huevosabio 10y agojajaja some middle school nicknames live longer than they should
- throwawayspic 10y agoso, is it better to leave it as "decline to answer"??? It seems it's a required checkbox.