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Why would talking about diversity in a cross team meeting cause you to dislike attending them?

• remarkEon 6y ago
  I would assume for the same reason that threads involving this topic on this website often devolve into flame wars.
• xiphias2 6y ago
  Think about a meeting of hundreds of people between 10 offices in the world who I will never in my life talk to/meet. They are boring for me anyways as a software engineer, as they don't discuss the engineering details, just everything on the product level. They don't help me in my job, but I would be there as a respect to other teams. But if the first 30 minutes is taken by the diversity without it being written in the official meeting agenda, that means a lack of respect from the company leadership. Actually Larry Page himself said years ago (before the diversity trainings) that if we think that a meeting is wasting our time from being productive, we're allowed to go away from it. For me the interesting meetings were about setting up production pipelines, fixing training-serving skew in the models (it's a huge problem for online training, when the training data is changing all the time), understanding the production setup of the deep learning pipeline, understanding the tradeoff, and planning capacity of the TPUs. But people in these meetings didn't talk about these for me hard problems.