Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

Post by grzm » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 6:43 PM UTC

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> "HN policy states that topics should be relevant to tech and startups." Something along these lines is often-cited, but isn't supported by the guidelines or by comments by the moderators. From the guidelines: > "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellect…

While I appreciated your clarity with regards to the instant dead-ing, I think your response here shows a disconnect with the reality of taking a position counter to the status quo on many of these issues. To associate viewpoints with your real identity that regularly involve a spectrum of mob justice and workplace dismissals seems foolish in the current climate. If you doubt such a climate, I'd ask you to examine th…

Post by LordKano » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 3:55 PM UTC

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As a black IT professional, I tend to leave the demographic information blank on applications because I want to avoid the racial implications of my application. I don't know if I'll be dismissed because I'm black and I don't want to be an affirmative action hire either. I made it to the 3rd round of interviews with Google back in 2012. Maybe if I had told them I was black, I would have gotten the job.

If including your race gives you a leg up, then I think you should do it. I saw a whole lot of casual racism when I was in college, and if that was indicative of the experience of others then you don't owe the rest of us shit.