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Sooner or later someone is going to get sued. Too many of the things tech companies are testing for are proxies for attributes of protected classes. Tech compan

Sooner or later someone is going to get sued. Too many of the things tech companies are testing for are proxies for attributes of protected classes. Tech companies give lots of lip service to diversity but only certain kinds of diversity and certainly not diversity that covers ALL protected classes. Some company is going to get a large judgement against them at some point but I doubt there will be any change before then. The amount of the judgement, or any consent decree, will be minor compared to the reputational hit these companies will get once it is found out that their thin veneer of inclusion was only millimeters deep. Since almost all of them are doing it, once one gets caught, they'll all be in danger.

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gruez 5y ago
>Sooner or later someone is going to get sued. Too many of the things tech companies are testing for are proxies for attributes of protected classes. IANAL, but my understanding is that discriminating is allowed if it's relevant for the job. Requiring programmers to deadlift 150b (which probably discriminates against women) would run afoul of anti-discrimination laws because it's not relevant to the job, but requiring that from construction workers is probably legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...