Not a good look, folks. https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google
Diversity is stupid
Works at uber, comment makes sense
You're not getting your job back, Travis.
please can you share the doc?
What's the guys name?
Guy's an idiot. That being said, it's often not a fair split. Being a single white person on a full team of Indians is just as bad as a single Indian on team of whites. both scenarios happen often. except that in the white case, it's worse due to language restriction and fear of being seen as a bigot if you complain about it.
Well learn the Indian language then. They learned yours. Just saying.
I blame managers for imbalanced teams. I've had Pakistani manager who coincidentally hired 4 Pakistanis in a row over a few years time and raised eyebrows. A Korean manager who hired 3 Korean in a row (one who thought apple cloud was a physical telephone model). I had one manager that truly stuck to diversified hiring practices and he was a loving man that was white. He was truly color blind and I miss his fairness.
Unless it came from leadership who cares? The whole notion of considering gender/race in medical school, law school, high tech applications is inherently sexist/racist. Just because someone makes an argument you disagree with doesn't mean you should name call, bully or shame them. It means you should give a counter argument. I'm getting sick of this west coast witch hunt mentality. It's like when Satya made the faux pax about women not asking for raises. It was a dumb comment but doesn't mean he's sexist.
It does make a difference because it is highly likely that this person interviews candidates. If they really believe in this manifesto, there is a good chance they have turned down a number of qualified women just because They would be less likely to provide positive feedback for female peers and more likely to provide negatives that enforce their idea thus directly affecting other people's career.
^ that's BS, the decisions are made by a hiring committee, and interviewers are expected to provide reasoning for their hire/nohire recommendations
It was a pretty reasonable first draft of a doc - could have used more sourcing but the basic ideas were sound and respectfully presented. Lots of people saw value in the discussion, but even more flipped out and declared that a call for reasoned discussion of an empirical question was harmful and threatening to them; management/HR is going to side with them because that's the PC police state of today's tech companies.
Diversity always help a team to growth more, this is a grey area is better to have a diverse team but no because of that you are going to force that. I'm a minority and I don't like to get any special treatment because of that. I'm sure there are great talent people any gender / color. When I work in a diverse team I enjoy more my workplace and team. I hope some day the resumes and interview process can remove the face / color / gender and just focus on the background / experience of each candidate.
dude argued from the premise that we lower standards to diversify which is flat out wrong. and assumed unconscious bias training needed to be rolled back, without any support whatsoever, other than it may upset people. he presented the bullshit in a nice format, with graphs even, but I've been here too long to recognize such bullshit. Was good for a chuckle. tldr; kid wasn't spanked enough as a child.
That's great to know about Google. In Microsoft, I have seen many times people were not fired for underperforming to maintain diversity. Infact, I am gonna say It's virtually impossible to get fired from Microsoft if you tick the right checkbox.
before it was a buzzword UB was studied, with many peer reviewed papers. even the famous Blink book talked extensively about it. but most people, like the manchild who wrote the doc, just see that it's being "pushed" on us and ignorantly assume it's garbage. having said that, we all are idiots when we're young so he will grow up. if I were judged by the things I said when young I'd never be a googler.
It is a pleasure and an honor to work with diverse individuals who are amazing at their jobs. It's also the shame of America that black and Latino people and women are born at such a dramatic economic and cultural disadvantage that they very rarely make it through to Google level tech jobs. This document perpetuates that system by suggesting races and genders have inherently different ability to code in C++ or JavaScript or own products or administer Linux or train neural networks or manage people. The mere suggestion of that IS THE PROBLEM. If you believe that you are truly stupid. Donald Trump has brought you out of the woodwork. Imagine that... Donald Dumpster Fire Trump is your cultural ambassador. If you feel diversity is bad I strongly urge you to identify yourselves openly at your company and in public. Make your views known and state your name. Stop hiding.
Iâd rather this discussion come to the surface rather than lurking in the shadows.
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Opinions of a few idiots do not represent an entire company. It's like picking a stupid thing westboro baptist church did and asking other Christians what they think on the subject
If a woman wrote a sexism manifesto it would be called an "open letter" and would be seen as calling out the company which would immediately be expected to defend itself
Yet you don't really see professional women writing such letters, do you?