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So, a quick note that my comments regarding racial representation are somewhat US-centric. I'd expect a company in Europe to be a much higher % white because yo
by omar_a1 7y ago
So, a quick note that my comments regarding racial representation are somewhat US-centric. I'd expect a company in Europe to be a much higher % white because your population is.
> We should be hiring on ability to do the job and nothing else.
This is exactly my point! Yet there is quite a lot of inadvertent, or even blatant, racism and sexism that happens during the hiring process and on the job.
- collyw 7y agoIf that is exactly you point then why do you have an expectation on outcome?
- omar_a1 7y agoBecause programming ability isn't determined by melanin concentration in the skin, or by what pronouns you use, and hence shouldn't show selection bias in hiring, save for a biased selection process.
- collyw 7y agoThat makes no sense. Hire base purely on ability. Have expectations about the numbers of skin tones / vaginas in the outcome. It reminds me of when GitHub had blind submissions for conference talks, expecting to get more women, then ended up cancelling the conference when it was all male talks that got chosen.
- omar_a1 7y agoIn the same way that handedness has no bearing on programming ability. If your firm were staffed entirely by left-handed folk, it should rightfully raise questions about how that happened. You seem overly defensive about your hiring process, and unsatisfied with any answer that asserts men and women are equal. Ironic, no?
- collyw 7y agoBut men and women are different.