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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by Spivak on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:34PM (#42956924)
What do you expect the approach to be when your goal is to go out into the world and find qualified people in demographics you aren't getting naturally in your applicant pool? If you want to hire women software engineers you solicit applicants from "women in tech" events and groups.

The belief, whether you agree with it or not, is that diverse teams produce better results. If your natural applicant pool is all dudes then your job as a headhunter is to find a woman who you think can beat them on merit.

The other way you do it is you hire them on as juniors where everyone's resumes might as well be written on toilet paper and "most qualified applicant" is a bit of a joke and train them up.

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by sneedle on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:44PM (#42966296)
>diverse teams produce better results

Obviously untrue. Diverse teams result in workforces that are harder to unionize because they have less in common. They introduce language and cultural barriers that disrupt communication. They hinder innovation because the types of people that want diverse workforces are ironically never interested in diverse ideas. They produce worse results across the board, which explains enshittification in literally all areas touched by DEI and why the US is losing the tech race to China specifically.

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