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This diversity thing is really getting on my nerves. I recently had to do a job interview for a programmer, and on his resume he put he worked on some "ethical
by koonsolo 6y ago
This diversity thing is really getting on my nerves.
I recently had to do a job interview for a programmer, and on his resume he put he worked on some "ethical project". Then during the interview, he asked how our company looked at diversity, and how women should get equal chances and all that. He technically wasn't good enough to make the cut. But even then, I don't want some political complainer in my team.
In fact our team is pretty diverse. I helped hire most of them. But we hire the ones who technically make the cut, and look like nice people to work with. Hiring "for diversity" really gives me the cringes.
Keep your political bullshit out of my team.
- cobraetor 6y agoI find it quite odd that actual diversity doesn't necessarily coincide with a claimed interest[1] in diversity. You don't advertise like all get out about diversity, and yet your team is pretty diverse. But look at the author of this post; he works for a company called Hangar who team is anything but diverse: https://www.hangar.is/team https://www.hangar.is/team [1] This is also called "virtue signalling".
- koonsolo 6y agoWhat really concerns me is the following: If you know how I select people, you can assume that all of them are good in their job. Nobody was selected because of their background or color of their skin. But if you hire for diversity, you can start questions why certain people are there. Because they are good at their job, or to satisfy the diversity? So in practice, you are discrediting those people, and maybe they don't like to be judged like that. So in effect, such teams that hire for diversity probably end up least diversified.