This premise is ignoring the fact that "growing up in a different culture or lifestyle" is a qualification for a job.
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Both matters. And it is not like you can always say: that male or that female is better. Mostly, they are both good in different ways and than there is room for more equality and preferring the female candidate.
I did countless job interviews and my company hires 50-50. I have never been in a situation where I could not hire a qualified male.
The number of white and male people here with persecution complexes is depressing.
I'm white and I'm male, and I know I'm not suffering because of it.
I'm white and I'm male, and I know I'm not suffering because of it.
"Diversity is critical to innovation"
Sounds nice to say, but can't a room full of white guys be innovative?
Is innovation held back because you have all white guys at a company?
Didn't Apple do some amazingly innovative things before having a focus on diversity? Before Tim declared that they can do better? How is it now critical to innovation when innovation was there before?
If you had all white guys at a company would you say to them, I'm sorry we are going to have to fire a bunch of you because all you white guys in the same room won't be able to innovate, because after all, all you white guys are all the same and we can't have diversity if you're all white.
Seriously people. Don't be misled by these false ideas that are all about feels and have no grounding in the real world. A group of 40 white people can be as diverse as a group of 40 black guys or 40 women or a any combination of races or sex. Diversity is at the character level and not a function of race or sex as you are being misled to believe.
Diversity IS the new racism. Are you willing to be racist and support "Diversity" metrics based on sex or color or would it be a much better idea to gauge the character of a person and then give them a diversity ranking?
Sounds nice to say, but can't a room full of white guys be innovative?
Is innovation held back because you have all white guys at a company?
Didn't Apple do some amazingly innovative things before having a focus on diversity? Before Tim declared that they can do better? How is it now critical to innovation when innovation was there before?
If you had all white guys at a company would you say to them, I'm sorry we are going to have to fire a bunch of you because all you white guys in the same room won't be able to innovate, because after all, all you white guys are all the same and we can't have diversity if you're all white.
Seriously people. Don't be misled by these false ideas that are all about feels and have no grounding in the real world. A group of 40 white people can be as diverse as a group of 40 black guys or 40 women or a any combination of races or sex. Diversity is at the character level and not a function of race or sex as you are being misled to believe.
Diversity IS the new racism. Are you willing to be racist and support "Diversity" metrics based on sex or color or would it be a much better idea to gauge the character of a person and then give them a diversity ranking?
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Hiring 50/50 sounds really good in theory but it could still be discrimination depending on what you define 50/50 as.
If a company has 100 female applications and 5 male applications who all have the same qualification, if all the men are hired and only 5 females, one could say we hired 50/50 for the 10 positions. In reality all the men were hired and IMO there was probably discrimination with the female candidates.
If you hire a bunch of people with the same life experience then you don't get innovation.
Very well said.
There's this insidious idea being propagated by Tim Cook and other misguided liberals, that somehow you'll get superior results with a 'diverse' workforce because people come from different walks of life.
This is such a condescending attitude, because it implies that no-one is able to put themselves in others' boots and has no imagination. And particularly in the field of computing, what matters overwhelmingly is quality of mind, not variety. Diversity is not going to improve the dire quality of Apple's software; indeed, it appears to be doing the exact opposite. What Apple needs is more single-minded boffins who know how to write good code in their sleep. People who want to do nothing but that all day long. Those kinds of people tend to be guys, of course.
Rubbish.
Were the men who invented flight from wildly different backgrounds? No.
In fact, innovation stems from the heart of one man, not from a bunch of people.
What about people that aren't glib, perhaps hesitate in their speech? What if they are the best person for the job? They will NEVER get a 2nd interview in this scenario.
It's far too complex to make any quick statement that can be all-encompassingly accurate.
Lots of people struggle at that. Especially the typically socially inept people who work for big IT companies.
What matters is the software being usable - which is why Apple makes quite such large profits.
Initial ideas often come from one person but to refine them into something useful you need more inputs.
Do you actually work with developers of OS software? Let me explain something.
Hiring more single minded coders does the following to software:
1) It makes software significantly more complicated
2) It makes software interfaces less useable
3) It makes interfaces less appealing
4) It makes a computer into an appliance instead of the piece of art Macs are
You want a product made by single minded developers, go run Windows Server 2012. If you would prefer a piece of software where art and design specialists make the best looking hardware, the diverse team at Apple have made OS X.
Diversity is critical.
Wilbur Wright - Middle aged guy from Ohio
Orville Wright - Middle aged guy from Ohio
Leonardo Da Vinci - Homosexual male who lived centuries earlier in Italy
Wildly different backgrounds.
Maybe, maybe not. Diversity is great, it brings new perspectives, but it can also be detrimental when divisive. It also depends on what your focus is. If diversity is the goal or if diversity just fills a quota, its not necessarily beneficial; it can even be harmful.
However, if diversity is a step towards a goal of innovation or something else then it can be beneficial. Further, there is a lot more to diversity than skin color, race, ethnicity, and/or gender (e.g., region of country one is from, religious/spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status [particularly during formative years], sexual orientation, political ideology, family size, marital status, age, intelligence, shoe size, height, weight, health history, and so forth).
Not really trying to be droll with my list of diversities, I just think that focusing on specific aspects of a person (skin color, race, ethnicity) while ignoring or minimizing all the other things that make people who they are results in a myopic view of humanity.
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Japanese tech companies are failing specifically BECAUSE they are single minded. Apple and Google have consistently proven that different cultures prefer more humanist designs. American and Korean tech companies have essentially destroyed Japanese tech with cultural diversity.
Exactly. 0.00146GB is nothing compared to the TBs they have stored in their head.
Uh, Apple claims to have 66k employees in the US. Subways (many are franchises) have over 200k.
Apple have released more of these reports than products in the last 18 months..
I am not sure why they keep publishing all this, just do it and get to business. I feel like its being pushed down our throats.
I am not sure why they keep publishing all this, just do it and get to business. I feel like its being pushed down our throats.
But it is true so why be pissed off.
You don't need to understand for it to be correct.
Why no "global race"?
"White" represent about 8% of the population in the world,
so "White"+"Male" should make up about 4% of the humans on earth..
Think it´s a safe bet that the number of white males employed is bit too far from 4% to be comfortable to show..
"White" represent about 8% of the population in the world,
so "White"+"Male" should make up about 4% of the humans on earth..
Think it´s a safe bet that the number of white males employed is bit too far from 4% to be comfortable to show..
My guess is that because the Americans don't have a long history as other countries have (name any in Europe, and let's not talk about Asian countries), they pay attention to the "small" details of their history, but that's just my guess.