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As far as I know, it is part of a long-term D&I initiative which has much more aspects to it. For example, your review weights your D&I performance as important

As far as I know, it is part of a long-term D&I initiative which has much more aspects to it. For example, your review weights your D&I performance as important as your technical performance.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago
To me, this screams that you are in an organization where technical performance is not critical to the success of the organization. I mean, look, I don't want to return to the days where if you were technically good, you could be a sexist jerk or a racist jerk or just generally a jerk. I don't want to work in that kind of an organization. But... equal weighting? Your organization isn't fighting for its life on technical merit, I suspect...
- CountHackulus 5y ago
  So what? I would argue that most companies don't live and die on their technical merit. I don't think that Toyota cares if they're using the latest JS framework or if their devs are 10% slower than the SV ideal. I for one struggle to think of a single company that is where it is only because of it's technical superiority, and not because they also knew how to sell that technology, how to talk about it, how to relate with people who should use it.
  - ramblerman 5y ago
    That's a different argument. The person working on the engine should be the best qualified person to do so. And similarly for the other technical areas. Nobody said anything disparaging about the need for sales, communication, or relationships. Only that in those respective fields you would also probably want the person who is most qualified, no?
CheezeIt 5y ago
What the hell is D&I performance?
- ecnahc515 5y ago
  Diversity and inclusion. So probably something about % of under-represented groups vs the majority (usually white males in the US tech sector).
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  Terms in common use are CRT, DEI and D&I. Because of the Marxist origin of CRT, some people are re-labelling CRT as DEI. (Or US Marxists conflate CRT with "presenting a more accurate version of history.") It's not about "usually white males in the US tech sector." It's about "white supremacy", which is all white people.

As far as I know, it is part of a long-term D&I initiative which has much more aspects to it. For example, your review weights your D&I performance as important as your technical performance.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago

To me, this screams that you are in an organization where technical performance is not critical to the success of the organization. I mean, look, I don't want to return to the days where if you were technically good, you could be a sexist jerk or a racist jerk or just generally a jerk. I don't want to work in that kind of an organization. But... equal weighting? Your organization isn't fighting for its life on technical merit, I suspect...

CountHackulus 5y ago
So what? I would argue that most companies don't live and die on their technical merit. I don't think that Toyota cares if they're using the latest JS framework or if their devs are 10% slower than the SV ideal. I for one struggle to think of a single company that is where it is only because of it's technical superiority, and not because they also knew how to sell that technology, how to talk about it, how to relate with people who should use it.
- ramblerman 5y ago
  That's a different argument. The person working on the engine should be the best qualified person to do so. And similarly for the other technical areas. Nobody said anything disparaging about the need for sales, communication, or relationships. Only that in those respective fields you would also probably want the person who is most qualified, no?

CheezeIt 5y ago

What the hell is D&I performance?

ecnahc515 5y ago
Diversity and inclusion. So probably something about % of under-represented groups vs the majority (usually white males in the US tech sector).
redis_mlc 5y ago
Terms in common use are CRT, DEI and D&I. Because of the Marxist origin of CRT, some people are re-labelling CRT as DEI. (Or US Marxists conflate CRT with "presenting a more accurate version of history.") It's not about "usually white males in the US tech sector." It's about "white supremacy", which is all white people.