Inspired by this question: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Racism-in-the-tech-industry-kC513tgi Let's try to be honest here. The first step to addressing biases is to recognize them - but at the same time, we don't want to overcorrect for a bias that doesn't actually exist. Speaking honestly myself, I noticed I prefer to work with people who are more American than others (so I'd check the cultural background box). I find it is easier for me to communicate with them than it is to communicate with people who have different backgrounds, because we share the same life experiences, figures of speech, and general world outlook. It's more challenging to communicate with people who don't share these attributes, because I need to find ways to express myself that would be interpreted correctly by someone from a culture I don't deeply understand. Once I recognized this, I made more of an effort to identify where, in my own communication, I was referencing cultural elements that were not shared with everyone else in the room. I also tried to recognize when I was making an assumption about what others were saying, and asked clarification questions instead of going with my default assumption. I think I became a better communicator overall because of this. But I felt very ashamed to realize I was biased in this way, especially since I was previously one of those people who believed you could get what you wanted with just hard work, and somewhat disregarded these subtle factors.
There are good and bad people of any race. It isn't race, its whether your personality meshes or not.
Agree with the first part. For the second, it's become more and more apparent to me that a lot of "culture fit" is related to what country you grew up in. It's subtle, but definitely there.
Prefer working with diverse team. Too many similar people result in a bad culture.
Agree on the first part. I don't think the second part of that is always true, but it does tend to make some questionable products. (Eg. game controllers made by all-male teams being unusable for women or smaller men)
This survey misses a "I prefer to work alone. I hate people." option.
Sorry, forgot the "I PIP everyone who isn't like me" option.
Get rekt
I prefer a nice mix as well. You never know what type of mind is needed to solve a problem.
Definitely, but there are also challenges to overcome to make sure there aren't miscommunications.
It can be one heck of a juggle. In the Navy I had to work with quite a few non native English speakers. Unfortunately when they where high enough of a rank you couldn't tell them you have problems understanding them and had to piece together what the speaker told you to do.
My main gripe is when their food (or they) smell too strongly. What am I supposed to do when the odour from the guy (it’s almost always a guy) sitting across the room makes me want to gag? Or when the food smells so strongly in the break room that it causes me to choke?
I've experienced this too. Sometimes it is someone who has eaten too much Indian food lately, sometimes it's that jerk who microwaves tuna. But I don't find this to be specific to any group. I have, unfortunately, met people of all kinds of races, cultures, and genders who smelled terrible.
What you need is to experience the full taste, and you will get used to it Lick his armpit
I like working with other Indians, not so much others. I work at Amazon lol.
Any particular reason?
Lot more cultural understanding. I like to be around people like myself
I won't lie. The smell can be dealt with by moving to another break room. However if someone eats balut in front of me, I will probably vomit.
This, and fish in general, and boiled eggs.
I have a hard time around fish in general. But I can't find it in myself to knock on someone who does like it. I just can't stand someone crunching into half a baby bird fecking feathers and all.
Prefer diversity and folks who have open liberal mindset and respectful of others thoughts and opinions. One of my colleagues said that when they were young 'being gay' was a negative connotation and looked down upon in society and now it is very open and their kids see and hear it all the time. They acknowledged their old mindset and mentioned that they worked on being more receptive and want their kids to be exposed unlike them and that they have changed their perspectives a lot over the years. Anyone who is not afraid to say they were wrong and expose their vulnerable side is a winner in my book.
Completely agree. I'm ashamed that I used to be somewhat conservative about a lot of things, and didn't want to recognize things like gender disparities, because I desperately wanted to believe the narrative that hard work is what matters in the end. But since admitting I was wrong about that, I think I have grown a lot as a person, and also became better at recognizing a lot of the more subtle things happening at work. This make me more effective at my job too. And even if people want to make some kind of inane argument about "snowflake sjws" or something.... If you can't change your mind about things that literally don't even impact you, how can I expect you to change your mind when new data is surfaced at work?
As long as the team isn't full of intolerant "liberals" and celebrates diversity of opinions, I'm all good. I have seen too many people, who honestly believe that everyone around them is thinking exactly like them and are just shocked to learn that someone might have a different opinion and a social or political issue (like, no, I don't support BLM). In my experience, having folks from other cultural background can help with that. Race however is irrelevant and people should stop obsessing about it.
I do think diversity of opinion is important, but I have to say, in real life, I have not seen the sorts of knee-jerk reactions people have on the internet. In my opinion, it's more effective to focus on education than on proving others right/wrong. That said, I wish race was irrelevant, but just from this poll, we can see many people do have a preference for what race their coworkers are. As long as that is true, it is still relevant in the workplace.
Interesting, so you think diversity of opinion, which reflects the actual essence of a person, is unimportant while diversity of race, which is a superficial, irrelevant concept, is somehow important? I would argue the exact opposite.
Wow did you really just blame an entire country for the pandemic. Jfc
When you say "covid country people" do you mean Chinese people, or do you mean rural ("country") republicans who are anti-mask/anti-vax? If it's the former, can't say I personally share that mindset. If it's the latter, I frankly blame the politicians and misleading propaganda more than the individuals.