Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by surgical_fire on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:06PM (#42659549)

If that's what DEI did, I think that getting rid of it is positive. It seems to just add performative and inefficient bureaucracy to an already typically slow and laborious task which is hiring people.

I am not even white by the way. I would feel extremely insulted if I found out I was hired to fill some diversity checkbox instead of being hired for being damn good at what I do. I am confident and proud of my skills, which I put a lot of effort to develop over decades. The color of my skin is as meaningless as the color of my shirts.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by userbinator on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:26PM (#42659750)

I would feel extremely insulted if I found out I was hired to fill some diversity checkbox instead of being hired for being damn good at what I do.

That's exactly what was happening, and you can imagine the quality of work that resulted in. Now that the tide is turning, that hopefully won't be the case anymore.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by Plasmoid on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:33PM (#42660518)

One thing that started happening is that "diverse" candidates were aggressively head-hunted, for interviews. HR wasn't interested in hiring them, they just wanted to fill our their internal diversity quota and lubricate the hiring pipeline.

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