Are we lowering our standards to hire people that are not as qualified for “diversity”? Do they really offer anything more (with all things considered) when compared with someone of similar qualifications?
Your post is riddled with misconceptions. Clearly your employer already has low standards
I agree 100% with you. I once brought this up to a friend who's a recruiter at one of the FAANGs and she said to never bring that up to anyone but totally agrees that companies are leaning towards hiring based on identity rather than quality/performance. Sadly, the diversity program doesnt work in the sports entertainment and movie industry haha. i believe it's just brownie points for that company so they can boast. The purpose of a company is to produce good quality products but i feel some priorities have shifted into meeting certain quotas on how many minorities they've hired. I do appreciate diversity though because we're exposed to so many different perspectives but if theyre hiring minorities just to check off some items on a checklist is unfair for the qualified. ive met a few people who were hired cuz of the diversity program but overall, everyones competant and able to finish their task. some slower than others haha.
Companies would be idiotic to have diversity policies that are self-defeating. The reason diversity programs exist is that companies naturally get under qualified and under-talented candidates precisely because they aren’t trying for diversity. Think about how many “good old boys” or “boys club” or “girls club” people get hired at most any company anywhere. They’re far from the most qualified - they just know people. Like they say, it’s not what you know...
Diversity helps in accomplishing bell curved performance management ratings. Now don’t ask how having that bell curve helps.
At my last employer I received triple the referral bonus when I referred a friend's wife, and she got hired. She was from a diverse group. I don't think she was worse than others. In the end she quit to pursue a law degree, guess tech wasn't what she enjoyed. I also know that at my last employer that HR would make it so that a manager wasn't able to rate diverse team members below satifactory. At the same time managers were told they had to rate a certain number of team members below satisfsctory.
For now, the best you can do is to only consider skill when you hire for your own team, and avoid letting on that you're not helping with quotas so you can keep hiring. But this is a great topic to see on Blind.
Think about what standards means. It means grinding leetcode ability. That isn’t standards.
Ideally, every hiring manager is using their own consistent set of standards, with occasional tweaks. The teams I'm familiar with here don't touch leetcode.
Then your team obviously has no standards :p
This is certainly not true at Facebook. We strive to make sure there are a diverse set of candidates at the top of the funnel, but there is no special consideration in the hiring decision or interview process because of anyone’s diversity.
Our reviews now take into account what we did to make Microsoft more diverse. This is for everyone, not just management
In the Bay Area, for the entry level jobs, yes diversity. For the senior level, it's all the same race and sex.
It’s pure bullshit but If you think about it everything in world is, so who cares 😊
whats bs is when they make more $$$ than u
Right but then there will always be bullshit people making more than you, per relativity. And if you think karma gets back at them then that also never happens coz Nature is unfair