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Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers with “Diversity HIRE”

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35 pointsredinkydonk19 comments

OP, can you offer more thoughts on why this is newsworthy? I intend no criticism, I just want to understand what this means to you and why you linked it. (If you’d rather not, I can safely assume a partial understanding from it, so no worries.)

Seems more relevant than this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356760

It does? Why? Neither OP nor your reply contain any reasoning to help the rest of us understand :(

I think it's honestly offensive to tell a candidate "we are interested in you not (only) because of your engineering skills but also because you are diverse."

It's good that Amazon is trying to become more diverse, but an email like this makes a candidate feel like they are being recruited for the wrong reason.

I agree. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I would likely have agreed with OP too, if I could be sure what they thought :(

Definitions are important, it's probably not the Diversity Hire you're thinking of > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=diversity%20h...

In Corporate Speak this means someone else qualified besides white males. Every major tech employer is facing this issue > https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2017/08/02/faceboo...

It's better than not hiring women I guess....

I wish they wouldn't have blocked out the email information. There's very little to verify this is legit.

This is my very good friend and I promise this is legit

This is your first comment in 1.75 yrs and we have no reason to trust you; your testimonial is unconvincing, unfortunately.

Fair, I added some more identifying information to my profile so you know that I'm a real person.

I have a very good friend in Amazon recruiting that says this has to be Photoshopped because Amazon doesn’t do that.

No, that’s not true. But I’ve got a ton of karma on HN, I post frequently, and there’s contact info in my profile. Who are people going to believe if I didn’t put a disclaimer here? Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m not inclined to believe some random person on the internet who has posted to this forum for the first time. IOW, many of us are waiting for something better than, “it’s true, really”.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/28/amazon_web_services...

Let's not require a person to "out" themselves before we consider their information legit.

Rather, let's reach out to our colleagues at Amazon and see if we can reach a recruiter. It shouldn't be hard to do.

I'm not asking that the person out themselves. I meant more information about the sender - I could quickly code up an email template that looks similar to Amazons.

uggh.. "This site can’t be reached"

https://imgur.com/a/MzTV9

imgur link isn't working?

Here's a non album link: https://i.imgur.com/ZeReXLm.png

LOL this is incredible

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