Is your company violating Equal Opportunity Employment law?
Does your company have career advancement programs for some on the basis of gender/race/sexual orientation but not others? Hiring/promoting quotas? Who do you report this to?
Most large tech companies have covert programs.
No kidding. I'm dealing with this now.
I started working for a new company that isn't on blind (so not my blind listed one) and the new company mentioned their hiring position in the new hire on boarding diversity and inclusion session. Essentially it was "underrepresented minorities" (so black and Latino, Asian is over represented in tech) that will therefore have different backgrounds and experiences. The person running the meeting said the qualifications for these candidates if they are for intern or junior roles don't have to be the same as we'd apply to other candidates. They don't need an engineering background, can be mentored on the job, and overall need to have a willingness to learn. I got the impression that there's a quota somewhere lol.
That sounds about right, I'm afraid.
Depends on which gender/race/sexual orientation is being discriminated against. Discrimination against bisexual trans black fictionkin preop transabled womyn is bad and illegal. Discrimination against able bodied cis white/Indian/Asian straight males/Apache attack helicopters => good
Yes. New (non technical background whatsoever) cto came in this year and wants 50% women in tech. Of course we can't improve the firm's percentage stats without rejecting all white &Asian males, so that is what's happening. The thing that bugs me about it is my team is 40% women hired on merit before this quota shit, but my next four hires have to be women too (and 40% is good considering only 10% of applicants are women, which all the teams are now fighting over).
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Very likely, yes. I have Aspergers/Autism Spectrum Disorder. I got a "Work Behavior Assessment" letter from my Immediate Supervisor and Boss that I was forced to sign the same day last month. I discussed this with the EEOC. They first told me to ask my boss to meet for an interactive process to ask for a reasonable accommodation. The only reasonable accommodation I got was a pair of noise cancelling headphones.
Serious question. What sort of accommodations were you expecting?
The EEOC told me to ask for either noise cancelling headphones or have my desk moved to a distraction-free area. My Boss told me that they couldn't move my desk because there was an office that was going to be used for a digital ad agency, so all I got were the headphones, even though the digital ad agency office is used by my immediate supervisor to make phone calls.
Yes they do.