YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says

Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by wycs on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:50PM (#16497869)

Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by HarryHirsch on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:16PM (#16498041)

No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants, so they can choose whoever they want, and most jobs are drone jobs.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by stcredzero on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:25PM (#16498090)

No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds.

Many companies have failed due in part to internal politics. Also, weren't many of the companies involved in the financial crisis going along with the prevailing political winds, just before everything changed?

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by whatyoucantsay on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:28PM (#16498470)

> No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants

Many companies have been trounced by outsiders unconstrained by their political liabilities.

Let's face it: Ford, Chevy and Chrysler all had sufficient applicants, even as Toyota and Honda were building the processes and company cultures that would dethrone them.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by ghostcluster on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:18PM (#16498415)

> Management techniques in NASA, the report said, discouraged dissenting views on safety issues and ultimately created “blind spots” about the risk to the space shuttle of the foam insulation impact.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-...

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by notacoward on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:32AM (#16500671)

Are you seriously trying to suggest that Chinese firms don't have their own racial taboos? Or gender issues? That directly contradicts every experience I've had or report I've heard. Aren't their crimes self-policing too?

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by meetapoorvgupta on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:04AM (#16508280)

All I know is that China has a huge, ambitious, STEM-focused workforce and a smaller economy. They could discriminate against applicants on any arbitrary basis ( I have no idea if they do, but that's irrelevant) and still continue to hire lots of intelligent, highly-qualified, and hard-working employees.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by vondur on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:30PM (#16498125)

Yes, this is how companies start to decline.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by discoursism on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:36PM (#16498784)

Is it? I'm not aware of any company in the history of the United States that has failed because it tried to increase its workforce's diversity. Would you mind providing an example?

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by YouAreGreat on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:47AM (#16500990)

Natural monopolist Google enjoys a "competitive moat" and collects monopoly rent. The combination allows for a lot of unpunished "inefficiency".

And scare quotes around "inefficiency" because I'm not convinced putting pressure on their productive white/asian male majority employees is actually inefficient for Google.

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