Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?

Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by proc0 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:00PM (#22313269)

Do you think a person who happens to be a minority is more likely going to be happy that they got hired for their skills, or for their skin color/gender? How would you feel if you got hired for something other than your skills for the job? Literally everyone loses with diversity hiring. Logic be damned though, right?

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by sevilo on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:36PM (#22313574)

This 1000%

Companies looking to make your hiring more diverse, please don't go nagging your potential candidates to apply because "We are looking to increase the percentage of women in our company". It's incredibly insulting and degrading, and then they wonder why the women don't respond to their recruitment emails. Same apply to any other minorities I imagine.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by duxup on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:11PM (#22313803)

For the sake of argument.

Hiring practices are pretty random garbage anyway. I don't belive they necessarily find the best fit, best skills or anything else.

Thus bypassing a messed up system that doesn't even get what it wants, simply isn't egalitarian (or whatever word we want to use here), doesn't seem so bad.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by belorn on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:16PM (#22314215)

For companies that think that like, please, hire more people with disabilities. There is a large pool of people who because of health issues are very far from the work pool, and as long you allow for flex time and lower than 100% work hours they can really contribute to society.

It would also add to your diversity, even if the categories won't be race and gender.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by treeman79 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:16PM (#22314772)

Have some crippling disabilities. Result of some minor stokes and other clots. But with flex time I can be highly effective. Like 10x programmer type. But I have days were I can’t get out of bed at all.

Last job forced me out since I couldn’t commit to being in office 100%

Most Every job I apply for asks if you have a disability. If I say yes or decline to stAte. 100% chance I get passed on. Weeks later job still open. If I say no Disability then a good 50-75% call me. My skill set is awesome and in demand.

Highly frustrating

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by gizmo686 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:19AM (#22315495)

Every job I have applied for asks if I have a disability (I believe it is a requirement for reporting purposes here in the US). I routinely decline to state (because I do not know what an accurate answer would be), and am not aware of that ever causing me to be rejected.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by pnunesc on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:08PM (#22313349)

This.

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