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Couldn't happen to a better group of people. I've never met a DEI "coordinator" who wasn't condescending and openly racist to the non-focus ethnicities. Hell,

Couldn't happen to a better group of people. I've never met a DEI "coordinator" who wasn't condescending and openly racist to the non-focus ethnicities. Hell, it was only after a TON of hate crimes that people realized Asians may not just be a different flavor of White in the office.

octonion 4y ago
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VirusNewbie 4y ago
They aren’t just racist to non focus ethnicities, they are racist to the focus ones too. Now I don’t know if it is intentional or unintentional but their policies negatively effect all groups: I happen to be latino, and only after wasting my time with an entire loop at Microsoft with a bunch of clowns that had no interest in hiring me, did I realize that 1. my recruiter had been a “diversity and inclusion” recruiter 2. Microsoft has policies that require many eng. Managers to check the box of having interviewed a “diverse” candidate before extending an offer. That’s why they do “hiring events” where everyone who conducts the interview is a hiring manager. I cannot emphasize enough how disinterested the people who interviewed me where. All the coding questions i had about 20 minutes and they were Leetcode hards. One of them was so fucking incompetent that when I solved it, (most LC hards would take me considerably longer but this was in my wheelhouse) he was confused until I explained it step by step. Tl;DR Microsoft DEI policies wasted my time and also Microsoft seems to be staffed by a bunch of clueless clowns.
- garbagecoder 4y ago
  Hispanic here too. I got explained to when I said I didn’t think the Spanish language was sexist and that only 5% of US Latinos used “latinx.”
  - pxmpxm 4y ago
    I always assumed that stuff was coming from english speaking white kids, rather than anyone that natively speaks a gendered language.
    - garbagecoder 4y ago
      Latinx was originated by a Mexican-American (I am not Mexican-American but am Hispanic) but definitely spread by white liberals. Just call people what they want to be called. This goes for Americans too even though "America" means the whole hemisphere. When Italians are talking about a watered down coffee, they aren't blaming it on Colombia.
atom-morgan 4y ago
Even then, it's still disingenuous. They only care about Asians when it supports their political agenda.
- John23832 4y ago
  Lol , you think they would care about black people if the companies didn’t want to signal?
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treeman79 4y ago
Got hired into a company. Shortly after was told how they hated having to hire a typical white engineer. But they were desperate for someone that can actually solve problems. They had a huge number of jr level diversity hires that just could solve the hard problems. People literally just spent all day looking for reasons to be offended about one thing or another. Barely anyone was actually trying to improve their craft. Someone got called a valuable resource. Then had to listen to them rage for hours at being labeled a resource. Of course in the spirit of diversity they mocked their mostly white customers endlessly. Was a horrible horrible job.
- DarknessFalls 4y ago
  I'm in a very similar situation. What is the incentive for all of these so-called diversity hires? Is there some sort of federal mandate or tax cut or business incentive?
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octonion 4y ago

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VirusNewbie 4y ago

They aren’t just racist to non focus ethnicities, they are racist to the focus ones too. Now I don’t know if it is intentional or unintentional but their policies negatively effect all groups: I happen to be latino, and only after wasting my time with an entire loop at Microsoft with a bunch of clowns that had no interest in hiring me, did I realize that 1. my recruiter had been a “diversity and inclusion” recruiter 2. Microsoft has policies that require many eng. Managers to check the box of having interviewed a “diverse” candidate before extending an offer. That’s why they do “hiring events” where everyone who conducts the interview is a hiring manager. I cannot emphasize enough how disinterested the people who interviewed me where. All the coding questions i had about 20 minutes and they were Leetcode hards. One of them was so fucking incompetent that when I solved it, (most LC hards would take me considerably longer but this was in my wheelhouse) he was confused until I explained it step by step. Tl;DR Microsoft DEI policies wasted my time and also Microsoft seems to be staffed by a bunch of clueless clowns.

garbagecoder 4y ago
Hispanic here too. I got explained to when I said I didn’t think the Spanish language was sexist and that only 5% of US Latinos used “latinx.”
- pxmpxm 4y ago
  I always assumed that stuff was coming from english speaking white kids, rather than anyone that natively speaks a gendered language.
  - garbagecoder 4y ago
    Latinx was originated by a Mexican-American (I am not Mexican-American but am Hispanic) but definitely spread by white liberals. Just call people what they want to be called. This goes for Americans too even though "America" means the whole hemisphere. When Italians are talking about a watered down coffee, they aren't blaming it on Colombia.

atom-morgan 4y ago

Even then, it's still disingenuous. They only care about Asians when it supports their political agenda.

John23832 4y ago
Lol , you think they would care about black people if the companies didn’t want to signal?
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treeman79 4y ago

Got hired into a company. Shortly after was told how they hated having to hire a typical white engineer. But they were desperate for someone that can actually solve problems. They had a huge number of jr level diversity hires that just could solve the hard problems. People literally just spent all day looking for reasons to be offended about one thing or another. Barely anyone was actually trying to improve their craft. Someone got called a valuable resource. Then had to listen to them rage for hours at being labeled a resource. Of course in the spirit of diversity they mocked their mostly white customers endlessly. Was a horrible horrible job.

DarknessFalls 4y ago
I'm in a very similar situation. What is the incentive for all of these so-called diversity hires? Is there some sort of federal mandate or tax cut or business incentive?
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