Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults (cio.com)

itwbennett writes: In May 2013, SAP launched its Autism at Work program, with the goal of recruiting and hiring 'hundreds of people' with autism worldwide. Now the company is expanding the program, and is looking to have people on the autism spectrum make up 1 percent of its total workforce (~650 people) by 2020, says José Velasco, head of the Autism at Work program at SAP. So far, autistic workers fulfill all kinds of roles in IT — from software testing, data analysis, quality assurance to IT project management, graphic design, finance administration and human resources, Velasco says, and the potential for new roles is expanding rapidly.

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I just added it to my resume.

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're looking for peeps on the spectrum, you came to the right place.

Similar to the progam by Goldman, Stanley etc

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

This program by SAP seems to be very similar to the very successful program that has been used by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, RBS, Credit Suisse etc. The only variation seems to be, SAP is seeking people with autism related disorders. The pioneering companies mentioned earlier exclusively recruited people with psychopathy, narcissistic disorders, extreme apathy and similar disorders. It has been going on for so long the top management consists entirely of people with these afflictions, often multiple afflictions. Their "alumni" who have left for other companies have created similar hiring and promotion programs in other companies that the entire top echelon of Fortune 500 companies consists of these psychopaths.