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Didn't they just get in hot water for throwing out resumes from undesirable demographics en masse and having racial convictions so strong they didn't even reali

Didn't they just get in hot water for throwing out resumes from undesirable demographics en masse and having racial convictions so strong they didn't even realize it was legally inadvisable to do this in the open?

paganel 7y ago
I directly know of a well known international institution that did the PC thing when trying to hire someone (“we’ll very much prefer if you’d send us a woman instead of a man for on-premises support role”) but they were smart enough to only say this over the phone, not over email, especially not in an official manner out in the open. If Google really did the thing you say they did (not saying that they didn’t, is just that a source would be helpful) then they’re beyond stupid. If it matters I live in Europe, not in the States.
- jjoonathan 7y ago
  Oh yeah, it's very much a thing. Someone responsible for hiring in my office regularly engages in illegal PC-motivated resume dumping and regularly brags and laughs about it. I've kept my mouth shut because I value my job, I don't trust the system to protect me from retaliation, and the guy in question isn't dumb enough to make his confessions in written media.
  - Redoubts 7y ago
    This just seems hard to believe given how strapped for manpower everyone seems to be, and how limited the quality of the resumes walking in the door are.
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    - jjoonathan 7y ago
      Yes, discrimination costs, but the person in question doesn't care or has rationalized the costs away.
cycrutchfield 7y ago
Do you have a link you can share about that? I can’t seem to find anything.
- jjoonathan 7y ago
  https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wilberg-recruiter-hiring-reverse-discrimination-lawsuit https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi... > In one hiring round, the team was allegedly instructed to cancel all software engineering interviews with non-diverse applicants below a certain experience level, and to “purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline.”

paganel 7y ago

I directly know of a well known international institution that did the PC thing when trying to hire someone (“we’ll very much prefer if you’d send us a woman instead of a man for on-premises support role”) but they were smart enough to only say this over the phone, not over email, especially not in an official manner out in the open. If Google really did the thing you say they did (not saying that they didn’t, is just that a source would be helpful) then they’re beyond stupid. If it matters I live in Europe, not in the States.

jjoonathan 7y ago
Oh yeah, it's very much a thing. Someone responsible for hiring in my office regularly engages in illegal PC-motivated resume dumping and regularly brags and laughs about it. I've kept my mouth shut because I value my job, I don't trust the system to protect me from retaliation, and the guy in question isn't dumb enough to make his confessions in written media.
- Redoubts 7y ago
  This just seems hard to believe given how strapped for manpower everyone seems to be, and how limited the quality of the resumes walking in the door are.
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  - jjoonathan 7y ago
    Yes, discrimination costs, but the person in question doesn't care or has rationalized the costs away.

cycrutchfield 7y ago

Do you have a link you can share about that? I can’t seem to find anything.

jjoonathan 7y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wilberg-recruiter-hiring-reverse-discrimination-lawsuit https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi... > In one hiring round, the team was allegedly instructed to cancel all software engineering interviews with non-diverse applicants below a certain experience level, and to “purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline.”