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Heh - love it. But playing devil's advocate here: won't this discourage applicants who aren't up on their latest internet memes? Is stuff like this on the recr
by gyardley 16y ago
Heh - love it. But playing devil's advocate here: won't this discourage applicants who aren't up on their latest internet memes? Is stuff like this on the recruiting page just a fast route to a homogenous company with a reduced ability to design for users not like them?
- nollidge 16y agoSharks and raptors aren't Internet memes, they're just badass motherfuckers. Edit: Well OK, turns out it is a meme. But I still think it's cool due to the aforementioned badass motherfuckery.
- patio11 16y agoAll corporate cultures select for "More people like us, please." (Especially the ones who mention how important a diverse workforce is to them. That line is not neutral with respect to the kind of people you want to hire.) The least they can do is be honest about it.
- gyardley 16y agoThis might be true. I've done this myself. But is it ideal? I don't particularly care for 'people of all colors holding hands under a rainbow' as an ideology, but I do think it's easier for a homogenous team to make bad product mistakes.
- wglb 16y agoDuring my enterprise time, I was a contractor at a BFE, and they did a pretty good job of diverse hiring by many measures. However, once people started, there was no room for diversity of thinking. So diversity in hiring, no diversity in thinking.