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Diversity has actual value, unless you're only making software for educated white men.

I'm sure this ideology gets lost in some departments and it feels like a checkbox exercise, but that doesn't make it meritless.

It's not just who's the best, it's who's best for the team and the company.

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So if I understand your point correctly, you're suggesting that all forms of discrimination based on innate characteristics are acceptable, as long as there is advantage to the business?

No. You still hire qualified people, but you take positive action to ensure you're not only interviewing candidates from (eg) white male backgrounds.

A lot of hiring mechanisms involved social ties, and only posting jobs to places you've previously hired from. Shockingly diversity doesn't improve.

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