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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by hueving on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:26PM (#13601710)
If your company has a head of diversity, your company is bloated and this person isn't going to fix diversity. I view these strictly as PR positions because I have yet to see anything useful come out of them.
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:31PM (#13601758)
I've yet to see anything come out of the PR-driven "diversity" push anyway. Call me back when those above the age of 55 can get jobs in Silicon Valley.
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by matwood on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:52PM (#13601973)
The fact you picked 55 instead of 30 says changes have already occurred in the right direction. Hopefully it continues.
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by lazugod on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:11PM (#13602674)
That's likely just their age. Doesn't make it evidence of any change.
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by tabeth on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:58PM (#13602022)
Ring Ring...

Hello?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086689

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As for whether or not it's easier or harder than being young, who knows. Isn't being younger an advantage in getting almost any job?

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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:39PM (#13603607)
Upvoted because these are great reads. Generally being younger is an advantage, but in how many trades does having more experience make you less desirable?
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by mahyarm on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:32PM (#13602339)
I've noticed that being over 55 makes getting a new job harder for most industries!
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:40PM (#13601831)
Is this conclusion the result of any kind of systematic analysis or just a momentary gut check?
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by hueving on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:34AM (#13622187)
I would be happy even if someone had anecdotes of success stories where these people fundamentally altered the culture of the companies to make them diverse. I have yet to see one success story that isn't some PR piece about the percentage of female engineers going from 15 to 18% (a.k.a they hired two).
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by vkou on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:29PM (#13601744)
Is this because you don't believe that employees have a problem with monocultures? Or because the initiatives they undertake don't address the problem?
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by HarryHirsch on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:45PM (#13601889)
Company culture is set by the leadership, if leadership is in the way any effort by the diversity guy is futile. I have never encountered a single one that wasn't a figurehead and several that were a nuisance.
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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by hueving on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:31AM (#13622178)
They definitely don't fix the problem. As the sibling comment points out, diversity is a result of tons of factors - office locations, industry sector, compensation packages, pto, work life balance culture; and, most importantly, the diversity of the candidate supply itself (you're delusional if you expect a large deviation from graduation ratios).

It's sort of similar to hiring a "head of profit". Profit, like diversity, is the outcome of the entire company's operations.

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