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Another former Yahoo employee has filed a lawsuit claiming that management running the company's "Media Org" was biased against men.
The complaint (PDF) filed by Scott Ard says that Yahoo's "stack ranking" system was "without oversight or accountability" and was "more arbitrary and discriminatory" than stack ranking used by other companies.
The lawsuit claims that Yahoo's Media Org employees were ranked from 0.0 to 5.0 before being subject to a "calibration" process by higher-level management. Ard claims employees weren't told their numeric ranking but were only informed of their "Bucket" ranking, labeled "Greatly Exceeds, "Exceeds," "Achieves," "Occasionally Misses," or "Misses."
[...] The lawsuit's allegations closely mirror those of Gregory Anderson, another male ex-Media Org worker who sued Yahoo in February. Anderson and Ard have the same lawyer, Palo Alto-based Jon Parsons. Discovery is ongoing in the Anderson case, which is currently scheduled for a trial in May.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @07:46AM
Good points.
Take for example my wife. I call her the human computer doing most complex algebra math in her head. She is extremely task oriented and writes extremely detailed instructions anyone can follow and pretty good at figuring out how people wrote their instructions wrong. She does not get terribly lost on a computer and can get around pretty good. Prime candidate for being a programmer. She has pretty much negative interest in working with computers or programming them. As in 'hey you would make a good programmer' 'I have no interest in that I want to be an accountant'. She will do good at that too. But you can not force being 'STEM' if you have reason to do it. She has the talent but no drive to do it. I show her simple programs. She gets them but does not care how they work at all. "thats boring".