Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by aianus on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:50PM (#14953534)

By that logic how is anyone supposed to criticize any hiring process? Of course hinting that the process is flawed will imply that some of his colleagues shouldn't have made it through.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by sgustard on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:56PM (#14954063)

A hiring process can be flawed by excluding a pool of qualified candidates from consideration, even if the ones you hire are capable of performing their jobs.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by aianus on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:03AM (#14954120)

Yes, and in fact this is what the original author was claiming (that non-diverse candidates had a higher false-negative rate)

However, if the number of hires is kept constant, and a given process is claimed to be flawed, then you are implicitly stating that one or more offers should have gone to what was a non-hire instead of what was a hire.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tomkarlo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:29AM (#14954686)

"If the number of hires is kept constant" is a huge IF that just doesn't hold up. If Google (or FB, or Apple) could find more candidates that met their hiring bar, they'd hire them as well. It's not a zero-sum game - these companies are constantly short on qualified engineers.

[my opinion, not my employer's.]

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