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I work in a european liberal art school. It doesn't get much more left wing than this. So of course we have written policies regarding gender, diversity and inc

by atoav 1y ago

I work in a european liberal art school. It doesn't get much more left wing than this. So of course we have written policies regarding gender, diversity and inclusion. As part of the staff I was included in various hiring processes. And I can assure you I haven't seen even the slightest sliver of someone being hired based purely on DEI without having the qualifications to back it up. In fact most of the times we had to throw out those candidates, because they lacked in one way or another against non-DEI candidates. Turns out even the most left-leaning people prefer working with competent colleagues, who would have thunk.. I file the whole DEI thing as right wing myths without basis in reality. All we hear is vague stories. You know my dogs aunt knows a guy who said on facebook..

zdragnar 1y ago
I personally witnessed DEI done wrong at the last company I worked at. We had a new HR lady who was all in on the hype and decided that our team was too white. After that, we didn't have a white person to interview for quite awhile. The racial makeup of interviews had changed- quite radically- and the quality of interviewees had gone down quite a bit as well. I'm certain one submitted a fake resume, and possibly a second. Bear in mind, our team was not entirely white, and we had people working with us from around the world as far away as Pakistan. Eventually, our manager got her taken out of the loop, and we took back control of hiring, including several (albeit not exclusively) non-white people. > I work in a european liberal art school There have been several prominent academia scandals in the US around the DEI space. Some of the studies that triggered a lot of the companies to hop on the bandwagon (and either Air Force or the DoD, I forget which) ended up being full of basic statistical fudging to fit conclusions.

by atoav 1y ago

zdragnar 1y ago

I personally witnessed DEI done wrong at the last company I worked at. We had a new HR lady who was all in on the hype and decided that our team was too white. After that, we didn't have a white person to interview for quite awhile. The racial makeup of interviews had changed- quite radically- and the quality of interviewees had gone down quite a bit as well. I'm certain one submitted a fake resume, and possibly a second. Bear in mind, our team was not entirely white, and we had people working with us from around the world as far away as Pakistan. Eventually, our manager got her taken out of the loop, and we took back control of hiring, including several (albeit not exclusively) non-white people. > I work in a european liberal art school There have been several prominent academia scandals in the US around the DEI space. Some of the studies that triggered a lot of the companies to hop on the bandwagon (and either Air Force or the DoD, I forget which) ended up being full of basic statistical fudging to fit conclusions.