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You can't fix in hiring what's already broken before people even get to college. I'm pretty sure Google's hiring disproportionally much women, black people, gay

by dep_b 9y ago

You can't fix in hiring what's already broken before people even get to college. I'm pretty sure Google's hiring disproportionally much women, black people, gay people already if you would compare it to what's graduating from the compsci careers in the US. Google is making other companies probably even more exclusively white/asian male because they tend to hire more of the women that do qualify for programming jobs. There are only two things you really can do: - Fix the school system. But the people that really call the shots in the US would call that communist because you would have to raise taxes - Train people from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds yourself If they really would care about diversity they could have Google schools in prisons to educate the more motivated and promising inmates in the skills Google requires.

GuiA 9y ago
> If they really would care about diversity they could have Google schools in prisons to educate the more motivated and promising inmates in the skills Google requires. Precisely. Or sending recruiters to Mississippi/Alabama/Louisiana/etc to identify brilliant 18 year olds who can’t go to college because of their socio-economic situation, etc. One can come up with many other ways to directly attack these problems. But really, most at Google/FB/Apple/etc do not believe there is much of an issue. They just want to appease the media by saying how much they care about diversity, resulting in terribly misaligned incentives all over, resulting in the kind of crazy situations the original linked article describes.