probably not that hard to find talent. unless they intend to have every position 50/50.
biggest hurdle would probably be to make themselves attractive enough that people want to work there.
i don't really know how it's looking with their competion.
probably not that hard to find talent. unless they intend to have every position 50/50.
biggest hurdle would probably be to make themselves attractive enough that people want to work there.
i don't really know how it's looking with their competion.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
In that case then I would say there's certainly a lot less bias in things. I'm not sure if I can call it completely unbiased, but if all that you're saying is correct, then you might be onto something. Or maybe not. I'd love to see a study on it.
That said, it sounds like you two are being really good parents. I wish the best for all of you!
Just keep going with the whole "You're a racist!" at anyone who disagrees with your narrow mindset. Keep shining that virtue signal, no matter how much you have to lie, exaggerate. Whatever keeps you from actually thinking things through. I'm sure it will get you far in life.
You literally do not understand the term equally qualified and it's actually amazing how far you are willing to go to defend absolute nonsense.
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Not creating a user login to read that but any hiring process that takes race sexual orientation or gender into consideration is inherently discriminatory no matter how it's dressed up
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It's not if anything it's the opposite at this point. Especially in tech you will be legitimately headhunted if you are a non asian minority or a woman.
I agree, that is where the change needs to happen, but that is a whole different subject. You can't hold potential employers responsible for the failings of a different industry.
I understand what you are saying but I don't know if I would call it a problem with the industry, because if that is the case it is a problem with many, if not all industries which seems to me to be more of a societal problem. The gaming industry is a male-dominated profession, but Childcare is a female-dominated profession. Society needs to start teaching people that you can do any job that you want without discrimination.
I really don't want to believe that Mike Morhaime and co fostered that type of environment, but given the current situation it really is the only possibility. This comes back to my idea of audits, if instead of the government and society just telling Blizzard it is undiverse and needs to hire x more women, they did annual audits going through CV's/application forms maybe even recorded interviews and gave out fines/sanctions, maybe companies would think twice about it.
I don't think the lack of female employees is about reputation, to be honest, up until this case began Blizzard didn't have these image problems to deter female applicants, in this instance it is more likely a mixture of less females applied and those that did were probably passed over due to interviewer/management bias.
Again, I don't think it is any individual companies responsibility to increase diversity in their industry.
But again, diversity quotas should not be a thing. Who has the right to tell an employer that they should have x% male employees and x %female, and of those x% should be gay, x% should be black and x% should be over 40? The only thing that we should be ensuring is that everyone is being treated equally throughout the recruitment process. A lack of people from 1 background or another does not necessarily make a company bad or wrong, sometimes it is just the way it is.
Not sure what you are getting at? I never said anything about this?
I'm not signing up to some random site to read an article a stranger on the internet recommended. But again, it comes back to increasing diversity in a company just because it looks good, that's not good for any business. It is not the responsibility of any specific employer in any industry to actively improve diversity within their industry, that's on the education system and the general populace to change opinions. If a company is hiring correctly without bias and they still have an undiverse workforce, you can't blame them for that and you can't demand that they hire more people to compensate either.
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You really just don’t know what you’re talking about. You apparently don’t know what “racism” means much less the long term effects of systemic discrimination. “Blind hiring” isn’t bad in and of itself but it completely ignores the issues that generations of discriminatory practices have caused.
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Had to stop reading all the comments after 2 pages. Same response over and over, "Most qualified should always get hired!". As if every job opening will only have 2 people applying and their applications are just a single number that tells the company who is best overall. Depending on the position, there could be dozens of applications with many being equally qualified on paper.
I can not speak for him but for myself. I‘m opposed to quotas in most cases because the math simply is wrong. First of all: How many male/female/diverse white/colored developers, office people, etc are out there. Let’s say the average „talent score“ of all these groups is the same, but there is more male white developers out there than white female developers. Like 70/30% - if you still hire 50/50%? That would discriminate that white male. And if those male developers where people of color? What if you had 100 straight male developers with 4 a subgroup of 4 outstanding ones competing with 3 „diverse“ ones (one that outshines them all, one average one and a complete failure). Would you still follow the quota even though the decision might lead to a mediocre product? People - regardless of background, sex, color of skin, religion should be hired based on their talent and not because of some stupid quota that doesn’t even match demographics.
I‘m a white male working in a company with at least 70% woman of diverse ethnic backgrounds on all levels of the hierarchy. They where not hired because they fulfilled some quota, but because in my field of research there are more women. I don‘t feel harrased or threatend because of that, because I don‘t work in a toxic environment.
Our CEO and owner is actually a nice guy, who treats people with respect and unlike Bobby K. he doesn’t need to make a big announcement because he first grabbed 100 million bucks without shame to later of to work for „minimum wage“ for an undefined amount of time. Why? Because my CEO doesen‘t take that money in the first place…
Sure, dozens of "equally qualified", but the deciding factor is a quota % that needs to be filled. More so, setting a quota will require hiring of said quota, i can already imagine the ad. "Wanna work for blizzard? Are you non-white or non-male? APPLY NOW", which is a form of discrimination on itself.
I'm all for diverse recruitment, be it race, gender, identity, whatever, but quotas are a bad way to go about it.
Having been part of the hiring process for various development teams over the past 20-25 years, one thought comes to mind "good fucking luck."
You can't hire diversity if diversity isn't applying for the jobs; in particular applicants with the necessary skills. In several of the cases I was involved in, while there was a push for diversity and we did get "diverse" applicants, applicants were still required to have the necessary skills/skill level: Too often they didn't/don't.