Meritocracy at Scale
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Meritocracy at Scale
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#3> Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.
> We believe that people should be judged by the content of their character — and, as colleagues, be additionally judged by their talent, skills, and work ethic.
> There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Achieving this requires casting a wide net for talent and then objectively selecting the best, without bias in any direction. We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the “right” or “wrong” race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal.
Seems like a prelude to some bad news coming out about Scale. Otherwise why would you write a post like this?
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#4> Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale. > We believe that people should be judged by the content of their character — and, as colleagues, be additionally judged by their talent, skills, and work ethic. > There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety…
Because you want to recruit talent that also believes the same thing?
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#5How brave of a company to say they will only hire those who will contribute the most to the bottom line!
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#6My hot take: a meritocracy will never fully exist in a workplace so long as there’s a hierarchy of power and therefore politics.
But I’m not advocating for removing a hierarchy.
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#7> Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.
Isn't this what everyone tries to do?
> A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
It might, but probably not because you have found people who have 'merit' whatever that nebulously defined thing might be.
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#9My hot take: a meritocracy will never fully exist in a workplace so long as there’s a hierarchy of power and therefore politics. But I’m not advocating for removing a hierarchy.
Out of curiosity, are you implying that "no hierarchy" is possible? And would "no hierarchy" somehow mean no politics, as your statement seems to imply?
I'm personally convinced that "no hierarchy" or "flat hierarchies" mostly means that hidden hierarchies will form anyway, and thus the situation you end up with, while different to traditional strict hierarchies, is still extremely hierarchical in the end.
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