For you fools complaining about "Diversity Hires"
Just a rant but honestly I find it disgusting that so many people here think like this. So many salty people that think anyone who doesn't finish their interview questions and passes is a diversity hire and that people who are rejected even though they "aced" their interviews deserve an offer.
1. No, FAANG didn't just accept someone because of their race/gender.
2. No, just because someone "aced" all of their interviews and completed all of their LC questions it means that they deserve the job more than someone who didn't complete any of the questions and passed
3. D&I hiring aims at giving interviews to folks who are underrepresented, not passing them. They still need to show that they are as good as everyone else who makes it through.
4. No one cares if you memorized 1000s of LC solutions and powered through an interviewer if you don't come across as someone who'd be a good teammate and don't show sufficient problem-solving skills.
5. Put yourself in the shoes of the interviewer and ask yourself what you'd want to see in a candidate. Or at the very least, be more self aware.
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Diversity hires are real. I've witnessed it
But reasonable people can disagree about whether it is acceptable to use race as a factor in hiring/comp decisions, such as in hypotheticals like
- using diversity criteria to break ties between otherwise equally qualified candidates
- being more willing to make good offers to attract diverse candidates who have cleared the hiring bar and gotten an offer, compared to equally qualified non-diverse candidates with similar competing offers
Again, these are just hypotheticals and aren't based on anything I've observed at Google. But they seem like, in abstract, the kind of grey areas where it's possible to have informed debate about the merits and for reasonable people to have differing opinions.
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Some companies have internship options only for diverse candidates. I’ve been a part of those. They’re meant to level the playing field, as it’s easier for privileged individuals to nab internships and know people at top companies. I have no issues with this, on average URMs tend to have less connections. Though these internship programs tend to be full of rich kids or immigrants who aren’t really held back lol
When it comes to internal hiring, yes companies will try to reach out more to diverse candidates. Yes there are programs to help diverse candidates join and then ramp up after they’re hired. Sure, a diverse candidate might be chosen over a non-diverse if there’s no difference in talent. But I’ve rarely seen an actual diversity hire - someone unqualified who gets the job anyway. Top companies aren’t lowering the bar like that. And I don’t see a huge issue since most of these companies started by only hiring based on connections or from five top universities. Trust me, the handful of targeted diverse candidates is nothing compared to the VP’s cousin who had to be hired or else. Look at all the nepotism kids who don’t know anything lol.
People focus on “diversity hires” who aren’t perfect across the board and don’t notice overrepresented teammates who aren’t that bright. It’s bias.
From what I can tell, white dudes get a bonus for being white in other countries.