Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by alexbeloi on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:14AM (#13712619)

People are known to have bias in favor of people that resemble themselves, so even if you tell them to just 'hire the best' they won't necessarily control for their biases and more so if that data isn't being collected and reviewed.

So if one wants to actually hire the best, they should measure these things, otherwise you can't correct for things like 'our Cal alum hiring manager keeps passing up a bunch of good Stanford grads' or more serious versions of that.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by epmaybe on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:48AM (#13714799)

Also, why NOT measure "diversity"? You don't have to act on it, but it sure would be nice to have the metrics for any later analysis. It's not hard and isn't something that takes many resources to compile.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by flukus on Thursday February 23, 2017 @06:25PM (#13718925)

Because if you aren't diverse enough by some arbitrary standard then you've just painted a target on your back.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by snowwrestler on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:16AM (#13722212)

It's not arbitrary. The gender and ethnic makeup of the tech industry are significantly divergent from the general population, and there is no job-performance reason for it.

It's not like it's the NBA, where you have to be a tall strong man to make the team. Anyone can program, market, manage, etc.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by ygaf on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:18AM (#13713998)

Fair point and spoils my enjoyment of the parent poster's provocativeness.

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