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Re:Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better by n7c3c1 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @02:45PM (#10473307)
This is just a PR stunt.

>There's a lot of room for unconscious bias to color the information. Research tells us that subtle indicators - names, clubs, addresses, school, previous employment, race, parental status, socio-economic status, etc - may unconsciously affect expectations and assessment of a candidate.

"Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd that plagues the Bay Area. That's why you're not allowed to take anything about a person into consideration before hiring them. Literally nothing. We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else. Everything is a bias and should be expunged from your evaluation process."

These companies will let the PC police ruin them.

Re:Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better by natep on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:02PM (#10473430)
Is that an actual quote within your quotation marks? Or are you creating your own straw man and attributing it to them?
Re:Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better by mmanfrin on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:07PM (#10473466)

  Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're
  definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd 
  that plagues the Bay Area
Stopped reading here. You might have had a good argument had you not just completely trangented off in an unnecessary political jab.
Re:Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better by delinka on Thursday October 29, 2015 @02:56PM (#10473377)
"We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else."

That pretty much sounds like "hire whomever walks through the door."

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Re:Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better by dang on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:16PM (#10473536)
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by adding another one. That just makes the thread worse for everybody.