Archived Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity (qz.com)
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Archived Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity (qz.com)
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[–] EmJayGee 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The slavish devotion to diversity has been going on for decades and decades. My wife and I were both managers from the 90s and both were in diversity training. I spoke up and questioned the value and was put into my place and learned not to question the narrative in public. She was honest in the anonymous post-it exercises that were done and her responses were ridiculed so she learned her lesson also.
I left for GOOG but got in a car accident and became disabled a year or so before the whole James Damore thing went down, I'm in a way glad because I'm pretty sure I couldn't have kept my mouth shut. I do notice that all my Google "friends" seem to have disappeared from my social media circles.
Microsoft is painfully devoted to metrics and thus the bottom line. The diversity adherence is for PR and hiring. MSFT isn't the #1 tech company any more and can't afford additional negative checkmarks when top candidates are considering where to work after graduation. 90% of the managers who profess undying love of diversity do it because their own diversity metrics are part of their own ratings and thus their ability to move towards the coveted reward of partnership.