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True! Except that this process is discriminatory because people communicate best with people who are like themselves.
by jonahbenton 4y ago
True! Except that this process is discriminatory because people communicate best with people who are like themselves.
- vt85 4y ago[dead]
- zsoltkacsandi 4y agoYeah, people who share similar values can communicate and work together better, but this isn't discrimination. On this basis the whole hiring field and each and every interview is discriminatory because the companies want to select who they want to work together with based on the candidates skills/values.
- marcinzm 4y ago>Yeah, people who share similar values can communicate and work together better, but this isn't discrimination. This isn't really my experience. Similar people will have a better initial perception of each other as it takes less time to synchronize with each other however in most jobs that's of little importance. What matters is how they work together in the long term and most people don't need clones to work well with. If anything else having too many similar people is a problem for a team since you get overlapping blind spots which tends to cause serious issues over time.
- xenonite 4y agoI consider it quite important how well people synchronize. It is much more fun to work with like-minded people where you can have good private talks as well because you’re sharing many values.
- zsoltkacsandi 4y agoMy point was that there isn't any discrimination in the phenomenon that people with similar values can work together better. >most people don't need clones to work well with Having similar values doesn't mean that they have exactly the same value/skill set, they aren't "clones". > having too many similar people similar values != similar people
- pessimizer 4y ago> Yeah, people who share similar values can communicate and work together better, but this isn't discrimination. You would think it was if you were a member of e.g. a minority religion and no one would hire you for a job you were capable of doing.
- pantulis 4y agoThat's why during interviews I preferred to put my hacker hat instead of more corporate-business-look-how-big-we-are-this-is-our-vision-bullshit.
- constantcrying 4y agoAll hiring processes are discrimnatory. That is in fact the point of a hiring process. If you don't want discrimination select the applicant by lottery.
- pessimizer 4y agoPeople are obviously using discriminatory as a shorthand for pointlessly discriminatory. It's an argument against using qualities other than actual productivity in a hiring process. You're on the side defending that.
- constantcrying 4y agoBeing able to communicate effectively seems not pointless.