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Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ... by floatingatoll on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:27PM (#15359601)
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.)
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Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ... by sandlerben on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:17PM (#15360370)
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.

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Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ... by floatingatoll on Saturday September 30, 2017 @10:30AM (#15372994)
I agree. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I would likely have agreed with OP too, if I could be sure what they thought :(
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Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ... by xor1 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:48PM (#15359754)
Seems more relevant than this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356760

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Re:Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers ... by floatingatoll on Thursday September 28, 2017 @03:44PM (#15360125)
It does? Why? Neither OP nor your reply contain any reasoning to help the rest of us understand :(
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