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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by peak_body_yo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:39AM (#14956369)
> Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach

What if all you are achieving is rearranging the dirt (ignore the negative connotations to dirt)?

Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find a place to work regardless of outreach efforts. The URM outreach efforts will just shift the talented URMs from other companies to its company.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by thex10 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:46AM (#14956773)
> Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find a place to work regardless of outreach efforts.

I'm not so convinced that'd be true! If there are no concerted outreach efforts what's stopping the majority of companies from hiring their mediocre non-URM friends of friends instead?

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