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Comment by pratnala | Hacker News Reader

Minorities get PIPped too in Amazon.

This is a good example of creating policies to change stats that are measured. Or something teachers call “teaching to the test”. Amazon can say well, our diversity based hiring practices have increased our hiring of minorities by 150% last quarter! Last quarter we hired more people under DEI policies than ever! We are so progressive ra ra ra !

So if the metric is hiring, not retention, not long term employment then they just let those people go next quarter.. and maybe re hire the following quarter to shift those stats again!

Unpopular opinion, hiring people by DEI initiatives is wrong.

You still have to pass the interview to get in. DEI changes the candidate ingress to the interview pipeline, it doesn't change the pipeline itself. You still gotta know your shit and be competent to get hired. Hiring someone below the bar does their demographic cohort no favors.

This is incorrect. DEI initiatives usually change the test and qualifications for admission / hiring. This was most obvious in "affirmative action" where less qualified minority individuals would be admitted to elite schools over Asian candidates.

Blackrock, which controls most of the Fortune 500 boards, mandates hiring quotas for minorities. Recruiters fulfill this by hiring less qualified individuals over those who are more qualified but not of the politically correct race.

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