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You're clearly not familiar with hiring in tech. It's 2% because the available pool is tiny. It's not for lack of trying to hire non-white, non-asians in tech.
by hncurious 5y ago
You're clearly not familiar with hiring in tech. It's 2% because the available pool is tiny. It's not for lack of trying to hire non-white, non-asians in tech. Tech minorities are in fact prioritized in hiring AND there are countless programs to increase the pool. Aimed at girls and tech minorities, not white and asian boys.
- sodafountan 5y agoIt's almost like biology and aptitude play a big part in what you end up doing in life. Here's a definition of aptitude from Google: What is an example of an aptitude? Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things easily and quickly. They have little to do with knowledge or culture, or education, or even interests. They have to do with heredity. Musical talent and artistic talent are examples of such aptitudes. Our industry has things backwards, rather than trying to cattle chute "Women and Minorities" into tech, which is bad for the industry and bad for people who land roles they won't be happy in, we should simply not discriminate against those who show aptitude towards the roles they're applying for - which in all of my experience has been the way things are. As an aside, wouldn't it be weird if we were all required to be artists to make a living?
- LightG 5y agoInteresting point, meine Obergruppenführer.
- sodafountan 5y agoDoes the word "Aptitude" trigger you, comrade?
- LightG 5y agoDoes the phrase "get f*cked you absolute bivalve, no wonder your girlfriend dumped you" have any resonance at all with you? (Edited for spelling)
- dang 5y agoIf you post flamewar comments again we will ban you. We've had to warn you before. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- LightG 5y agoUnderstood. I apologise though the aggrecious level was off the scale. I thought it was quite a poetic and appropriate response at the time rather than flamewar'ish, but you're right.
- dang 5y agoIf you post flamewar comments again we will ban you. We've had to warn you before. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html