Low diversity early team?
Wondering if anyone is on a team where they're feeling like a token. Have you brought it up with your boss? HR? Also don't know if I'm making as much as male colleagues as one of few females on team.
Companies hire diversity for the sake of hiring diversity *pikachu meme*
Are you saying it’s a bad thing to hire for more diversity?
I'm saying it's bad to hire people based on their gender/race/anything but actual skills
I work remotely for a company with HQ in the Bay Area. It’s incredibly diverse which is new for me! The last company I was at I had the token feeling for the first time in my career. Didn’t feel good. Sorry you’re dealing with that. What type of role do you have? For salary, not that it will help right now, but ask them questions about what comp survey data they use for offers and increases. And make sure you’re leveled appropriately.
I work in analytics, I'm first hire on my analytics team while the other teams are more developed (2+ and expanding) My boss has said diversity matter to him but it's not a priority. The thing is that I feel that unless you make it a priority you're being somewhat complacent about it.
What do you expect to happen- they will fire people of certain race / gender to make you feel more comfortable?
Diversity hiring is such a horseshit practice. In engineering it's so painfully obvious when a person is a token hire. It doesn't do any good for anyone. I hope someday tech companies will realize that.
What makes it painfully obvious? Are the minority hires substantially worse than the rest of your team?
I believe it's an old, old wooden ship from the civil war era
Very typical you hire what you can and who you know
Hr might be like “yeah we hired you over someone else because they were X and not based on skill” then what? Youll just exacerbate the problem by digging into peoples original intentions and probably wont like what you hear.
HR would never admit to that.
Youd be surprised how brazen some are about their motivations. Still Im just saying what Ive heard people say in confidence and other posts on blind. This more would apply to a naive boss or early stage startup employees