Hiring Discrimination Debate

The cluster centers on debates about racial, gender, and other biases in tech hiring practices, including diversity initiatives, culture fit, disparate impact laws, and whether such efforts constitute illegal discrimination or are necessary to counter unconscious biases.

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artninja1988 Sep 27, 2023 View on HN

Sounds a lot like discriminative hiring. Isn't that illegal in the us?

ausbah Oct 8, 2020 View on HN

how about racial biases in hiring? no hiring is completely meritocratic, even in tech

jimmywanger Mar 4, 2017 View on HN

Based on what? Racist misconceptions about how hiring processes work?

twobat Oct 28, 2019 View on HN

You cannot hire by not discriminating. It's by default a task that discriminates.

AlotOfReading Oct 15, 2020 View on HN

Seems like you could fix that by not relying on what hiring managers think and say, since neither of those necessarily correspond to what they actually choose to hire. After all, no hiring manager will admit to discriminating on race, age, caste, etc... But all of those have been newsworthy factors in the recent past.

jpd- Aug 17, 2019 View on HN

The entire hiring process is an act of discrimination. What's the alternative? Hire everybody that applies?

bluecalm Mar 17, 2021 View on HN

Doesn't telling the recruiters that suggests they should take a skin color or gender when making their decisions? That sounds pretty bad to me and would be illegal in my country.

Markoff Feb 16, 2017 View on HN

so essentially you want to be known as company which discriminate white people and men in particular and prefer gender or race over several skills, good luck with such reputation, be sure I will always choose company not known for having these practices when shopping around

gedy Mar 2, 2018 View on HN

It sounds like they are splitting hairs to say that they aren't discriminating in hiring, but in the candidate pool they gather.

nawitus May 26, 2016 View on HN

Try to improve their hiring process without focusing on hiring minorities?