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This kind of "skill" elitism will not help google create products that people want to use. They do not live in the same reality as their average user. The consi
by eduardordm 14y ago
This kind of "skill" elitism will not help google create products that people want to use. They do not live in the same reality as their average user. The consistent failure of most of it's products in the past few years was caused - in part - by the complete lack of understanding people in general.
- Evbn 14y agoThe average is nowhere near qualified to build the product they use, though, so that's not the problem. Focusing on CS algorithms more than HCI, maybe.
- eduardordm 14y agoValid point. But my opinion is that you cannot have your whole staff made of the same "category" of people. I guess diversity is not only about race, color or religion, is about people that come from all kinds of backgrounds, I'm "sure" that there isn't one single black guy without a degree that used to live in the bronx there. Maybe they are making products they want to use, not people in general. Intelligence is just a social fitting, really.