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Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by jdminhbg on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:52AM (#12318022)
It's weird that the article describes Facebook as "largely white" when it's significantly less white than the US as a whole: (54.4% vs 61.6%[1])

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00

Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by andrewchambers on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:56AM (#12318033)
Yes, feel good quotas mean nothing. You are probably diverse enough if your staff match the ratio of people enrolled at university 5 years ago, and even then i think its wrong to favor employing people based on race or gender at all.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by asdfologist on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:40AM (#12318177)
It's not racist as long as you favor the right race. /s
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by perfmode on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:00AM (#12318047)
> Facebook says it wants its workforce to better reflect the diversity of its 1.7 billion monthly users—85% of which are outside the U.S. and Canada.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by jdminhbg on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:03AM (#12318055)
Yeah, I held up for a second because of that, but the data presented is from the US EEOC, so presumably applies to their US workforce. Their workforce might be "largely white" when compared to the worldwide FB userbase, but not to who they're allowed to hire domestically.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by asdfologist on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:16AM (#12318099)
Then shouldn't Facebook hire more Chinese and Indians? They comprise ~35% of the world population.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by tn13 on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:33AM (#12318153)
Since Chinese people are not the users of Facebook he should not hire any Chinese :D.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by desdiv on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:24AM (#12318124)
I wonder how they plan to deal with the GFW-induced disproportionally low Chinese users problem.
Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by klipt on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:49AM (#12318200)
I think the author forgot that Asians exist and assumed that "not black" equalled "white". It's a common mistake in the US where racial politics is very "black and white".