Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by throw_away_777 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:15PM (#14953741)

That maybe the theory, but it often isn't how it works in practice. Unfortunately people who claims this publicly get fired. I don't know the numbers, but it would be interesting to see if the acceptance rate of a google job interview depends on gender or race.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mvarner on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:38PM (#14953923)

I have a feeling that if race truly played a preferential role in hiring engineers, we would see more than 1% of tech roles being filled by Black engineers at Google. ;)

https://www.google.com/diversity/

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by throw_away_777 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:53PM (#14954042)

Without knowing the distribution of the applicants, we can't say. Maybe 0.1% of all applicants are black, we don't know. In the same way, just saying 1% of tech roles are filled by black engineers doesn't imply that google's hiring practices are discriminatory.

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