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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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