Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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