Tech’s Troubling New Trend: Diversity Is in Your Head

Is working at a "tech" company, a social benefit that we should be "doling" out evenly to all groups as a reward? What does that mean "deserves to work in tech"?

The only measure why anyone gets to work anywhere is they have the skills and mental ability to perform , at the minimum, the necessary tasks. We should simply be ensuring that we are not systematically biased against any candidates as to hire the best possible workforce.

It would actually be interesting if it were true, but I've seen literally nothing to support that aside from this one anecdote.

My guess is that the article is coming from a place of, "it would be horrible if this happened, let's scare people about it so that this one case doesn't become a trend."

We're getting to a point where people of different political orientations won't even talk to each other anymore. People with different religious beliefs won't even serve one another as customers. There's people who won't even talk to their family anymore over politics!

Tech is becoming that way too. I have worked with hundreds of people and I can only think of one Conservative I worked with. The rest were either Libertarian (~20%) or Progressive (~80%). As nice and comfortable as an echo chamber can be, I see this as net negative. I think this is a real problem.

Sadly I don't have any solutions to offer though, because it's obviously inappropriate to ask someone about their political views in an interview. I've just been trying really hard to listen (and it is hard sometimes). If enough people start listening on all sides, I think it will make a difference.