GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 12, 2026, 2:07 AM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #265

noitpmeder wrote: post #179

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If a qualification for the role is "appreciation for certain less represented cultures/ideas/..." then sure. Otherwise, for a backend c++ engineer the benefits are significantly less obvious, to the point it's really hard to make a case for why DEI concerns should trump traditional evaluation metrics for skill. The goal should be to hire the best team for the use case, regardless of gender/race/culture/background.

> why DEI concerns should trump traditional evaluation metrics for skill It was never trumping skill. This is just a willful rewrite of history perpetuated for some political goal. The goal was always to ensure that skill had adequate opportunity to be displayed without bias.

Post by throw-the-towel » Tue, May 12, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC

blindriver wrote: post #237

Animats wrote: post #17

Their old CREDIT values: Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency. New values: Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes. In other words, work harder, not smarter, and no more DEI.

I don't understand why companies are abandoning DEI so quickly and so decisively. What happens if/when a Democrat president is elected that mandates DEI and ESG all over again, are they going to add them back into their core values as swiftly as they abandoned them? At least companies like Coinbase made principled stances against forced DEI and employee activism earlier than everyone else. Doing it now seems weird be…

Post by rdevilla » Tue, May 12, 2026, 2:16 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #333

slg wrote: post #303

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>What happens if/when a Democrat president is elected that mandates DEI and ESG all over again Mandates? There is this weird revisionist history that DEI was a Biden era invention that all these companies were forced to roll out in January 2021. These programs were simply the latest evolution of prolonged and steady cultural shifts. I remember attending events trying to promote diversity in the computer science depar…

You mean decades of regression . The obvious decline started around 2010; coincidentally also the era of the rise of SJW-ism and nontechnical derailing drama. Once the diversity quotas started appearing, the inevitable results were obvious.

Post by junberl » Tue, May 12, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

threecheese wrote: post #239

junberl wrote: post #207

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>when you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression Tell this to the people enjoying unearned privilege under DEI policies.

I keep seeing this term “earned” ITT; what does this mean to you? Did you earn something which you were denied when a less-experienced other person got a job? We all have two brain cells and understand there’s a tradeoff being made here, and it sucks being on the other side of that, but i struggle to see what privilege you believe you have or should have.

Post by Supermancho » Tue, May 12, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

thin_carapace wrote: post #352

DrewADesign wrote: post #346

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Are you replying to the wrong comment?

you say suck it fascist in response to DEI being removed, i say DEI would get canned by communists and fascists both, autofill the rest of the argument with some prose