throwaway35934

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I work for a Fortune 500 company. One of our senior technology execs was just listed on Business Insider's "Top 100 people in AI". Our company has no products that use AI. The closest we have come to actually doing anything with AI is a tiny trial of GitHub Copilot.

throwaway35934

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I mean, what are they supposed to do?

To take one obvious example: there's massive under-performance of black men (vs. any other group) at every stage of the educational ladder up to the tertiary level. There simply aren't enough qualified candidates for engineering jobs for firms to be representative of the relative populations at a national level.

36% of white men have at least a bachelors degree; only 19% of black men do. Black college graduates choose STEM majors at only two-thirds the rate of white graduates, and one-third the rate of Asians.

throwaway35934

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I have absolutely been pressured to "reconsider" when I marked an intern in a diversity target group as a no-hire, and said intern was then switched into a different team.

EDIT 1: The more effective mechanism that my company uses is to verify at the time of hiring a candidate that you can show you at least considered diversity target candidates (in engineering, basically women and non-Indian/Asian/white).

EDIT 2: also definitely see diversity target group employees being flagged for second-look when identifying layoffs, PIPs etc.

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