Afraid I might be a diversity hire
Not really a #metoo thing, but want to hide the company for obvious reasons. Recently started interviewing at a few places, FANG and some startups. People are very eager to talk to me, mostly going straight to onsites and/or coffee chats with management. Somehow I just can’t shake the feeling, people are only interested in me so much because I am a woman and the teams I’m talking to are not particularly diverse. Really don’t want to be a diversity hire
As a female hiring manager, I can tell you that I’m excited about building a diverse team, but I’m not wasting my time on unqualified candidates.
Your statement contradicts with itself. Lets say u have 4 positions. U get 4 qualified men/women. Would you accpet them or reject some of them in name of diversity ?
I don’t see how it is contradictory. I can be excited about a qualified woman coming in to interview, but if she doesn’t cut it, I’m not going to downlevel the quality of my team to bring her on. And if a man kills it, I’m not going to reject him because I’m waiting for a woman. In your example, if I have 4 positions and 4 awesome candidates then I’d like to take them all! The big difference is that I’m actively trying to eliminate some of the unconscious bias that keeps qualified women from moving forward.
^ solid advice
Are you a white male? Serious question.
I'm a white guy and this happens to me too. I think companies are just desperate for talent and spend more time trying to sell the company than actually interviewing you. I have a strong resume so I guess my experience speaks for itself.
Hey! Nobody would hire you if you weren’t any good. Don’t even doubt that for a second. You probably have two box ticks: good+diversity. Great for you!
That’s alright - my manager straight up told me I was a diversity hire. :(
That's so fucked up
What a jerk!
The cost of the SJW agenda: we are denied the ability to compete solely on merit. As a minority, I resent being treated differently by those trying to “help;” primarily white liberals attempting to assuage their guilt. It’s so degrading. Others will always wonder if I only got where I am due to factors totally outside my control. Or they will resent me because I may have taken the position from someone more qualified. During one hiring discussion, the HM/recruiter agreed we could have hired the candidate, but he was male so we had to pass. They explicitly stated they would hire if he were female. He was a Chinese man. I was in favor of hiring him. Guess he wasn’t the right minority! The only solution is meritocracy: no forced quotas, no diversity hires, no affirmative action. Ironically, what I’m calling for is an end to institutionalized discrimination, but SJWs don’t see how discriminatory and racist/sexist they actually are.
And what about external institutionalized discrimination?Advocates of affirmative action do see that it introduces bias, but it is meant to counteract existing biases. Advocating for competing solely on merit means either adding a bias counterbalance to the definition of merit or letting external biases run free.
Affirmative action is illegal in my country because it is still racist/sexist. It’s such an odd concept to fight wrong with a different type of wrong
Make them see you are more than a token hire. You make your opportunities. You can change their mind. Regardless of how you got your foot in the door, you determine how you are viewed based on your work.
There are no such thing as diversity hire. World is an unfair place and you need every advantage you can get. Use whatever you have to your best advantage, ace the onsites, get multiple offers and starting a bidding war. Don’t believe the bullshit that you are diversity hire, if you get the offer then you have earned it.
“...if you get the offer then you have earned it.*” *except if you’re white and/or male in which case everything you have worked hard for is because of your unearned privilege.
Oh cry me a fucking river.
Don't take the job then. Or else you'll never shake the feeling and you're never going to fit in.
There’s been so much discrimination to women for so many years at the workplace and there still is that I think a little bit of positive discrimination to sets things right is fair.
But I’d actually like to be hired because of merit, not because of some quota. Really doesn’t help with the imposter syndrome. There is no such thing as positive discrimination, by the way
positive discrimination? How do you come up with such dumb terms?