Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?
This shows the benefits of local government. I think this is a bad policy. Fortunately, I also don’t live in San Jose. If I did, I’d try to elect new local politicians.
Yes, but when they used purely merit-based standards, some groups consistently scored lower than other groups. That was deemed unacceptable, so discrimination was reintroduced to the process.
Years ago, when Google was young, their recruiters contacted me. Their pitch: We only hire the best of the best. We’re focused on top students, from the top schools. The interviews are hard, and most people fail.
Today, it seems Google’s pitch is: Okay, we need to top-off this demographic bucket, and you’re in that bucket. Will you help us even-out this demographic pie chart?
Also, most people don’t know how to swim. When you ask a person if they know how to swim, when you’re headed to the beach, you’ll get:
1 Sometimes: no way, I stay out of the water
2 Usually: uh, sure, yup, I can swim
3 Rarely: Totally, I used to be on a team.
My favorite follow up to #2 is “could you swim 4 laps in a pool without ever touching the bottom or stopping to take a break? That usually prompts a “what are you crazy, no way that’s super hard” response. Then I inform the person that they do not know how to swim, and that they should be extra careful.
In the interview, he talks a lot about the difficulty of navigating the regulations.
Perhaps his criticisms of those regulations are valid — but those regulations exist because of previous problems.
In many cases, the same people who scream, “banking sucks” would also scream if their bank failed due to a reason that some existing regulation would have prevented.
Is your stance, “all cultures are good, unless the culture is different from mine?”