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You want Google and the like to run ideological tests when hiring? Seriously? If their tests selected for a differing ideology from the points you state, woul

• fleddr 5y ago
  You're not getting it, they already do. He's saying that there may be centrists or conservative people with Google level engineering skills that have no issue with things like ICE or military contracts. I'd imagine such characters would not be popular inside the company, and best shut up. Hence, you could argue the culture already pre-selects for progressive ideology. The "women in tech" memo is a perfect example of it. Sure enough, it was clumsy and likely full of inaccuracies. But the core thesis is hardly harmful or controversial. It was saying that women have less "tendency" to be interested in hardcore tech, therefore aggressively enforcing quotas on this representation is something you could at the very least debate. The memo doesn't even classify as specifically right-wing. It's just a counter point against how to achieve diversity and how far to take that goal, and which method to use. The consequence is that he's fired on the spot. So that proves the point. Centrists and conservatives, or anybody challenging the most progressive views can work at Google yet best shut up. Ideological selection is already in place.
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• dudul 5y ago
  Isn't it already the case at many companies? I thought that was what the magical umbrella term "culture fit" was for. At my 2 previous jobs, I was explicitly asked during interview what my position was on "diversity" and "equity". To this day, I still don't know what that had to do with me writing code.