Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ...
by floatingatoll on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:27PM
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OP, can you offer more thoughts on why this is newsworthy? I intend no criticism, I just want to understand what this means to you and why you linked it. (If you’d rather not, I can safely assume a partial understanding from it, so no worries.)
Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ...
by sandlerben on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:17PM
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I think it's honestly offensive to tell a candidate "we are interested in you not (only) because of your engineering skills but also because you are diverse."
It's good that Amazon is trying to become more diverse, but an email like this makes a candidate feel like they are being recruited for the wrong reason.
Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ...
by markwaldron on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:26PM
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I'm not asking that the person out themselves. I meant more information about the sender - I could quickly code up an email template that looks similar to Amazons.
Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ...
by mikestew on Thursday September 28, 2017 @03:39PM
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I have a very good friend in Amazon recruiting that says this has to be Photoshopped because Amazon doesn’t do that.
No, that’s not true. But I’ve got a ton of karma on HN, I post frequently, and there’s contact info in my profile. Who are people going to believe if I didn’t put a disclaimer here? Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m not inclined to believe some random person on the internet who has posted to this forum for the first time. IOW, many of us are waiting for something better than, “it’s true, really”.
It's good that Amazon is trying to become more diverse, but an email like this makes a candidate feel like they are being recruited for the wrong reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356760
In Corporate Speak this means someone else qualified besides white males. Every major tech employer is facing this issue > https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2017/08/02/faceboo...
Rather, let's reach out to our colleagues at Amazon and see if we can reach a recruiter. It shouldn't be hard to do.
No, that’s not true. But I’ve got a ton of karma on HN, I post frequently, and there’s contact info in my profile. Who are people going to believe if I didn’t put a disclaimer here? Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m not inclined to believe some random person on the internet who has posted to this forum for the first time. IOW, many of us are waiting for something better than, “it’s true, really”.
imgur link isn't working?