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Stripe is a business. The goal of a business is profit, because without it, it dies. Are you able to bring profit, moreso than other candidates? You're hired.
by alexashka 7y ago
Stripe is a business.
The goal of a business is profit, because without it, it dies.
Are you able to bring profit, moreso than other candidates? You're hired.
That's it, nobody gives a shit about depression and if some company decides on arbitrary qualities that are unrelated to profit in regards to hiring, it'll be beaten by a company that focuses on profits.
Depression, feelings and values are great topics to be discussed in romance novels, tv shows, dinner parties and other leisurely activities that you may engage in, after you bring value to society you're a part of, or else society will cease to exist.
- andrewingram 7y agoYou're not really addressing the core question here, it was never really about the profitability a depressed person can bring, it was about whether hiring based on a signal of an optimistic personality is unnecessarily exclusionary. Values-based hiring isn't a magic bullet, it can lead to problems such as having a monoculture. And as I alluded to before, it's possible for hiring too rigidly against a value to unintentionally become a proxy for exclusionary bias.
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