Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a startup award

Re:Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a ... by qznc on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:32PM (#11076203)

I guess the strategy is: Apply political pressure to bring more minorities in. Accept the side effect that quality is lower. Wait for the culture to change. Once minorities are at "normal" levels, lift pressure and wait for quality to return.

Currently, I can observe females in computer science simply being there for the quota, while more competent males get rejected. I just hope the quality hit will not hurt us too much and I hope society believes we have "normal" levels quickly.

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Re:Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a ... by lsgrep on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:13PM (#11077296)

I'm curious about the logical leap you made when you stated;

  Accept the side effect that quality is lower.

I'm also curious about the following;

  Currently, I can observe females in computer science simply being there for the quota, while more competent males get rejected.

Without actually statistically backing it up and there being a significant different in performance. It's pretty anecdotal.

Tell me, for someone who makes these types of logical leaps and uses anecdotal quips to support a bigoted statement -- do you believe yourself to be a "quality" employee? Because I'd fire you.

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