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• gaius 9y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952574
  • jldugger 9y ago
    I have not worked at Google and have no idea what the list in question is, who maintains it, or what it takes to get on said blacklist. Speculation admits a lot of possibilities, including your own, but there's no evidence that managers created that list. It could well be line staff producing and publishing their own list of preferences. As a random example, perhaps a list of known sexual harassers that HR has not acted on, curated by an individual contributor with a victim's right's motive, and shared with at-risk coworkers. In such a situation, a person might legitimately wish to not put themselves in another stressful, high anxiety situation involving harassment. Either option and many more are possible. All the ones I can think of suggest that Google's hiring and transfer process needs work.
    • gaius 9y ago
      People who tweeted about adding names to the list were identified via LinkedIn as managers at Google. I don't want to doxx anyone because maybe they have seen the folly of their ways but there was a whole furore about it at the time. In the UK employer-maintained blacklists are illegal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36242312 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36242312