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During Some "Required Questions": How do people like James Damore, including those who in some part feel and/or think like him, get past Google's vetting proce

During Some "Required Questions": How do people like James Damore, including those who in some part feel and/or think like him, get past Google's vetting process? Obviously a number do. "Obviously" given companies want some semblance of culture-wide agreement; if not obviously, what id going on?

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Why do companies want culture-wide agreement? Especially for one who values diversity, don't you want as varied of people as possible, so your company, in turn, sees things from as many angles as possible? I work in an environment with both strong-leaning liberals and hard right Trump supporters, but it's never been a problem for my job, or how I interact with those people, because Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have surprisingly little to do with our jobs. Most people work with people they disagree with, and most people even work with people they actively dislike. But most people also don't get fired because they don't treat the workplace like a warzone. Google chose to foster an environment of welcoming people to argue about politics at the office, something most workplaces know is best to avoid, and then was shocked at how badly that turned out.
- olliej 9y ago
  I think the problem is that somehow we've reached the point where republican/democrat, liberal/conservative, has come to be the difference in the answer to "should [insert minority] be treated equally". Not fiscal, foreign, etc policy. Not religion. The act of saying "you should not be able to fire someone just because they are [minority X]" has somehow become "divisive" or discriminatory. There are plenty of things you can argue about (I mean my view is /obviously/ right ;) ) but I think at some point people have decided that specific classes of people should have fewer rights than others, and I'm hard pressed to say how that is valid in an objective sense.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    I suspect the people who honestly believe that are far smaller. The chief debate seems to be whether or not certain minorities groups have inherent disadvantages compared to others, and whether or not we should, based on people's race, gender, or orientation, give them a manufactured advantage to try to reach some sort of socioeconomic "equality". The majority of people who identify as Republican likely do not feel that black people or women or queer people "should have fewer rights", but do feel that their status as a minority group should not grant them special privileges.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

Why do companies want culture-wide agreement? Especially for one who values diversity, don't you want as varied of people as possible, so your company, in turn, sees things from as many angles as possible? I work in an environment with both strong-leaning liberals and hard right Trump supporters, but it's never been a problem for my job, or how I interact with those people, because Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have surprisingly little to do with our jobs. Most people work with people they disagree with, and most people even work with people they actively dislike. But most people also don't get fired because they don't treat the workplace like a warzone. Google chose to foster an environment of welcoming people to argue about politics at the office, something most workplaces know is best to avoid, and then was shocked at how badly that turned out.

olliej 9y ago
I think the problem is that somehow we've reached the point where republican/democrat, liberal/conservative, has come to be the difference in the answer to "should [insert minority] be treated equally". Not fiscal, foreign, etc policy. Not religion. The act of saying "you should not be able to fire someone just because they are [minority X]" has somehow become "divisive" or discriminatory. There are plenty of things you can argue about (I mean my view is /obviously/ right ;) ) but I think at some point people have decided that specific classes of people should have fewer rights than others, and I'm hard pressed to say how that is valid in an objective sense.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  I suspect the people who honestly believe that are far smaller. The chief debate seems to be whether or not certain minorities groups have inherent disadvantages compared to others, and whether or not we should, based on people's race, gender, or orientation, give them a manufactured advantage to try to reach some sort of socioeconomic "equality". The majority of people who identify as Republican likely do not feel that black people or women or queer people "should have fewer rights", but do feel that their status as a minority group should not grant them special privileges.