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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by macintux on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:59PM (#30156678)
Anecdotally speaking, it doesn’t seem like it would be hard to find examples of companies doing stupid things that could have been avoided with a more diverse decision-making team.

Apple famously took forever to add a menstrual cycle tracking feature to their Health app, e.g.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by jeromegv on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:34PM (#30157005)
Or Google Photo that tagged Black people as gorilla. Clearly, developers must have tested with their own photos (on top of generic datasets) and if they had had more diversity within their dev team, they would have caught that sooner.
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