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Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Not much changed at Google over the last year when it came to the diversity of the tech giant's workforce. Google released its annual diversity report on Thursday detailing the composition of its workforce. The percentage of female employees rose by .1 percent to 30.9 percent. The percentage of Asian employees grew by 1.6 percent to 36.3 percent. The number of black and Latino employees grew by .1 percent to 2.5 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively.
"Google's workforce data demonstrates that if we want a better outcome, we need to evolve our approach," said Danielle Brown, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Google, in the report. "That's why from now on ownership for diversity and inclusion will be shared between Google's leadership team, People Operations and Googlers. Our strategy doesn't provide all the answers, but we believe it will help us find them."
"Google's workforce data demonstrates that if we want a better outcome, we need to evolve our approach," said Danielle Brown, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Google, in the report. "That's why from now on ownership for diversity and inclusion will be shared between Google's leadership team, People Operations and Googlers. Our strategy doesn't provide all the answers, but we believe it will help us find them."
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Yeah, that's the mental gymnastics of having actually read the memo, instead of regurgitating a third-hand report of how someone on Jezebel was offended.
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I interviewed at that office in 2005 the year after it opened (IIRC), and I got tired of them not making a decision so I started looking for another job. I found another job, worked there for seven months then it went out of business so I started looking again. Out of a blue I got a call from Google saying they were preparing an offer. They stalled for so long that I not only was able to find a job, but I was already looking for another one.
I'm used to working for start-ups where you interview with a couple of peers then maybe the founder then they indicate almost immediately if they want you. The idea that you should wait 8+ months for them to decide is just ridiculous.
I turned down the offer since it was for a team that was already late on a project so they warned the usual up to 20% (assuming I remember correctly) bonus would not happen. Plus, they said vacation time would be limited to almost none for at least the first two years.
indicate almost immediately
That's what the start-up I work for does. You don't want people to look for other jobs. I've lost many good candidates by taking more than a couple of days getting them an offer. You have to move fast. Google is so big and arrogant that they think this doesn't apply to them.
Googler here, staying anonymous for obvious reasons.
Honestly, there is a huge amount of care for this topic at the company from a certain very loud segment. There are also feminist groups circling the company with frivolous lawsuits. It's despicable, there is absolutely NO bias against non-white non-male candidates. We make every effort to recruit and retain people of any kind -- AS LONG AS THEY ARE ACTUALLY COMPETENT.
That last part is what these screeching harpies really care about. We can't MAKE people interested and competent with this stuff, they're barking up the wrong tree. They need to start looking within, and at the education system. Perhaps different people are attracted to studying different things?
It's not like we can skew the demographics outside the company, what more do they want from us????
Where the fuck do you get "Christian" from? White male, yes (in the US and Europe), but the vast majority of computer scientists I've met are atheist—particularly the white, male ones. Obviously the field attracts people who tend to be very analytical and rational. Of course you get the occasional religious freak, but it's rare.
Maybe your social circle is limited, or maybe you aren't widely read.
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- Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Bacon, Bayes, Euler, Galileo, Leibniz, Maxwell, Newton, Pascal, Riemann . . . I could go on. I doubt you will illuminate STEM in the way they did, and they believed in God. It seems atheism is not a requirement for rational thinking, let along science and mathematics. That is a conceit that seems to be popular on Slashdot, but there is little to it.
List of Christians in science and technology
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That may be true or it may not be. But you're potentially discounting a fantastic candidate because "most women wouldn't be good at that..." But what about the one who is?
If that's what you believe I wrote then you need to go back and read it again.
I'm merely recognizing that men tend to do better than women in software engineering and other STEM occupations. That means that if Google hires the best people for software engineering they won't get a 50/50 men/women ratio. The distribution will be more like 85/15 men/women. I get this ratio based on the ratio of men and women that graduate in computer science and related fields.
The question is whether or not a company is not hiring a woman for a position she could do because she's a woman.
What we see Google doing is passing over superior applicants for software engineering positions because that applicant is a man. We know this is happening because of documents leaked out from the company. Given that discriminating for jobs based on sex is illegal in the USA, and has been for years, Google should be sued into oblivion for this.
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