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Why should you hire for diversity instead of just trying to hire the best? Isn't the goal to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination rather than change its
by amock 15y ago
Why should you hire for diversity instead of just trying to hire the best? Isn't the goal to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination rather than change its focus?
- ChuckMcM 15y agoInteresting, apparently I completely failed to communicate. You should hire the best folks you can find. Period. You should do everything you can to avoid missing out on hiring excellent people who are present in groups where finding such people is harder and/or less likely. If you do both of those things, then there is never an issue with revealing how diverse your hiring is because you're trying to find the top talent regardless of protected class and you've got documentation to back that up. Personally when I went through interview/hiring training at Google I felt like they did at least said the right things about hiring, so I was disappointed that they would hide behind the 'trade secret' excuse. These are the people that overthrow repressive north African nation states they should be willing to share how they are trying to find the best folks they can.
- amock 15y agoI must have misunderstood your first comment because I agree completely. I don't have any data about it, but I would think that any large tech company would be much more interested in having the best people than they would be in hiring only from a limited pool.