Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by kortilla on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:04PM
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Nope, allowing some candidates to retry more because of their genes or straight up skip a failed phone screen is lowering the bar for them. The entire hiring process from recruitment to offer is part of the hiring bar.
Retries, easier judges, removing some earlier barriers, etc would all be obvious discrimination in any other process.
You yourself admit that the process has false negatives. If those are in any way probabilistic (which is obvious that people get in after multiple tries), allowing minorities to try more frequently is lowering the bar for minorities.
If you let someone throw extra darts at the dartboard to hit the bullseye, that doesn’t make them as good as the people that hit it in fewer attempts.
> So no, I never wonder why a coworker was hired.
Good for you, but not everyone was so willfully ignorant when I worked there.
Retries, easier judges, removing some earlier barriers, etc would all be obvious discrimination in any other process.
You yourself admit that the process has false negatives. If those are in any way probabilistic (which is obvious that people get in after multiple tries), allowing minorities to try more frequently is lowering the bar for minorities.
If you let someone throw extra darts at the dartboard to hit the bullseye, that doesn’t make them as good as the people that hit it in fewer attempts.
> So no, I never wonder why a coworker was hired.
Good for you, but not everyone was so willfully ignorant when I worked there.