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If your company has a head of diversity, your company is bloated and this person isn't going to fix diversity. I view these strictly as PR positions because I h
by hueving 10y ago
If your company has a head of diversity, your company is bloated and this person isn't going to fix diversity. I view these strictly as PR positions because I have yet to see anything useful come out of them.
- vkou 10y agoIs this because you don't believe that employees have a problem with monocultures? Or because the initiatives they undertake don't address the problem?
- HarryHirsch 10y agoCompany culture is set by the leadership, if leadership is in the way any effort by the diversity guy is futile. I have never encountered a single one that wasn't a figurehead and several that were a nuisance.
- hueving 10y agoThey definitely don't fix the problem. As the sibling comment points out, diversity is a result of tons of factors - office locations, industry sector, compensation packages, pto, work life balance culture; and, most importantly, the diversity of the candidate supply itself (you're delusional if you expect a large deviation from graduation ratios). It's sort of similar to hiring a "head of profit". Profit, like diversity, is the outcome of the entire company's operations.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoI've yet to see anything come out of the PR-driven "diversity" push anyway. Call me back when those above the age of 55 can get jobs in Silicon Valley.
- matwood 10y agoThe fact you picked 55 instead of 30 says changes have already occurred in the right direction. Hopefully it continues.
- lazugod 10y agoThat's likely just their age. Doesn't make it evidence of any change.
- tabeth 10y agoRing Ring... Hello? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086689 --- As for whether or not it's easier or harder than being young, who knows. Isn't being younger an advantage in getting almost any job?
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoUpvoted because these are great reads. Generally being younger is an advantage, but in how many trades does having more experience make you less desirable?
- mahyarm 10y agoI've noticed that being over 55 makes getting a new job harder for most industries!
- anigbrowl 10y agoIs this conclusion the result of any kind of systematic analysis or just a momentary gut check?
- hueving 10y agoI would be happy even if someone had anecdotes of success stories where these people fundamentally altered the culture of the companies to make them diverse. I have yet to see one success story that isn't some PR piece about the percentage of female engineers going from 15 to 18% (a.k.a they hired two).