Why would you assume "best" = "racist"?
Also - which companies are saying they hire the worst people?
I've worked at several companies - every single one of them claimed to hire the best. It's just corporate psychobabble at this point.
Also - which companies are saying they hire the worst people?
I've worked at several companies - every single one of them claimed to hire the best. It's just corporate psychobabble at this point.
The last point is so wild when I hear it from some VCs or successful CEO. It’s easy to take a risk when your parents and family are loaded, even if you have nothing to your name at the time. It’s easy to say such things when your parents are doctors or entrepreneurs who put you through private school and then you got into Stanford. I’m sure they’re smart, but they bought their way in when you reduce it. Sure they took it from 20-100, but many people can barely get from 1-10 due to socioeconomic circumstances. I respect the people who manage to go from 1-100 way more than someone who was bound to be reasonably successful at worst from birth.
Why are people who think they're "the best" inclined to think it's in part / mostly / solely due to race?
Typically one of them is "sharing these key characteristics with me make you better than those who don't", these characteristics often involve some kind of racial-like features.
Also it’s not recruiting or hiring that I think is relevant. Those activities mostly impact non-employees. It’s in this drumbeat from leadership about prioritization of projects which reminds googlers not to waste their time on simple or small problems (or fixing bugs or maintaining a service) that any non-googler could do. It says “Remember that you’re better than they are.”
The idea of "best" is ultimately a lie and it's the same lie that supremacy tells.