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I am with you on this. I am a recruiter for a large tech company in Seattle and with the recent political environment, I have asked my team to take it upon them

I am with you on this. I am a recruiter for a large tech company in Seattle and with the recent political environment, I have asked my team to take it upon themselves to ask if the person they are going to bring into our team and our community is going to help us progress as a whole. I get angered when people tell me to look at just their CV, but there is so much more there. If I know that someone on their Facebook profile liked some Alt-Right podcast or calls themselves a "Libertarian" on their Twitter profile, I know that there is a good chance that they are not going to work well in an inclusive environment. So I save us both the trouble and move past the candidate. We have an obligation to stand up for our beliefs if we are going to see the change we need.

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- kadenshep 8y ago
  Yeah, this is an incredibly unordinary talking point and it's not honest. At the very least it's just troll bait. "I hope your org gets sued." For what, not hiring crazy racist people? It's okay to call a spade a spade, instead of trying to masquerade these "differences" as some kind of valid, constructive view point. It's incredibly politically correct and it's annoying. The chances of you actually being a good, intelligent engineer that harbors absurd and morally repulsive view points tends to be astoundingly low in my experience. It's often been my experience that engineers that seemingly struggle with abstract concepts tend to harbor pretty nutty viewpoints once you start talking with them. There seems to be a pretty heavy correlation here, in my experience. And I keep saying in my experience, but I think the phenemon is well understood across the industry. The chances of you not believing in the scientific valdity of global warming, or being okay with the current mess that is the health care market, and being able to model and reason about abstract concepts tends to be... misaligned. Or if you can't even rationally talk with people without being disingenuous. These tend to be decently understood subjects and if you're not able to comphrehend them the chances of you being able to reason about technically hard problems in an efficient manner is going to be low. Hackers aren't supposed to be politically correct, yet this talking point gets brought up every thread and it's pretty boring and old. I've worded the above like 3 different ways to avoid the predictable responses. And for the record, I look at U.S. conservative candidates with extreme suspicion because of the above. I don't mind differing opinions. I hired an anarchist which is completely opposed to nearly everything I politically believe. Except for a few key points. His ideas are academically sound, well researched, and he's not xenophobic/homophobic or just generally unscientific. That's a far cry from what happens when U.S. conservative politics get involved.
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    - kadenshep 8y ago
      Do yourself a favor and re-read my post. And yes. It's an agreed upon view point.
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        kadenshep 8y ago
        There's nothing secret about hiring people who can think rationally and morally. It's typically part of the interview H/R screening process.

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kadenshep 8y ago
Yeah, this is an incredibly unordinary talking point and it's not honest. At the very least it's just troll bait. "I hope your org gets sued." For what, not hiring crazy racist people? It's okay to call a spade a spade, instead of trying to masquerade these "differences" as some kind of valid, constructive view point. It's incredibly politically correct and it's annoying. The chances of you actually being a good, intelligent engineer that harbors absurd and morally repulsive view points tends to be astoundingly low in my experience. It's often been my experience that engineers that seemingly struggle with abstract concepts tend to harbor pretty nutty viewpoints once you start talking with them. There seems to be a pretty heavy correlation here, in my experience. And I keep saying in my experience, but I think the phenemon is well understood across the industry. The chances of you not believing in the scientific valdity of global warming, or being okay with the current mess that is the health care market, and being able to model and reason about abstract concepts tends to be... misaligned. Or if you can't even rationally talk with people without being disingenuous. These tend to be decently understood subjects and if you're not able to comphrehend them the chances of you being able to reason about technically hard problems in an efficient manner is going to be low. Hackers aren't supposed to be politically correct, yet this talking point gets brought up every thread and it's pretty boring and old. I've worded the above like 3 different ways to avoid the predictable responses. And for the record, I look at U.S. conservative candidates with extreme suspicion because of the above. I don't mind differing opinions. I hired an anarchist which is completely opposed to nearly everything I politically believe. Except for a few key points. His ideas are academically sound, well researched, and he's not xenophobic/homophobic or just generally unscientific. That's a far cry from what happens when U.S. conservative politics get involved.
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  - kadenshep 8y ago
    Do yourself a favor and re-read my post. And yes. It's an agreed upon view point.
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      - kadenshep 8y ago
        There's nothing secret about hiring people who can think rationally and morally. It's typically part of the interview H/R screening process.