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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:34PM (#22311373)
Is this tracking for reporting purposes only, or are there certain incentives/punishments for making/missing on certain metrics?
Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:26PM (#22311284)
It's definitely strange to me, but I'm not really informed as to this part of the industry. I'm on the spectrum and spend most of my time reading/working on technical details.

I kind of wan't to avoid a subjective analysis here and just see what other companies do for these types of concerns (if they have them).

Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?

Ideally this topic won't devolve into an off-topic war.I'm curious how other companies approach diversity.Our company has been tracking diversity and reports on "# of non-male identifying employees" and "# of non-white employees".A coworker just posted about a tool to remove biases from job postings (textio.com), which looks awesome.The response from HR was "we're using that and our job...

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