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The U.S. Department of Labor has just sued Google in an attempt to get the Mountain View tech giant to cough up compensation data for an audit of its compliance with federal labor laws.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs had in September asked Google to submit particular information, according to a news release Jan. 4 from the labor department.
"As a federal contractor, Google must agree to permit the federal government to inspect and copy records and information relevant to its compliance with the equal employment laws," the labor department said.
"Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so. We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Source: Bay Area News Group
https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20162406_0.pdf
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday January 06 2017, @04:11AM
Why don't they hire more females/people of color? Because they don't fucking apply for the jobs, and when they do they can't pass the interview.
Private industry is not like federal bureaucracy, in PI you have to know your chops and demonstrate them. As opposed to government bureaucracy where you need to be the correct gender/color to get promoted.
I've been interviewing coders for a good 30 years now. Saddest I had was a black guy in a very nice suit and tie, complete with a guy accompanying him. I was first to interview him. My strategy is to start with easy questions to put them at ease, then ask progressively harder questions to see what they knew. I didn't want to know how they acted under stress,, I wanted to know how they worked day to day.
Guy couldn't answer my first question. That had never happened to me before. I scrambled for another ez peazy question, he couldn't answer that either. The 45 minute interview ended with me trying to come up with a question he could answer, and failing. When the interview was over and I passed him to the second interviewer I went to my boss, guy ended up getting his second interview aborted and he and his handler got escorted out of the building.
That was 20 years ago, I still think of that guy often. He got into one of those second chance type programs, was given no real training, was given a smart suit, and set up to fail.
Looking back, I should have looked at hiring him as an intern. But we didn't need interns at the time. Company imploded about 6 months later, but I still wonder if this presumed ex gangbanger/ ex druggie wouldn't have turned out to be good at software.
If you're black, in your 40's, and interviewed at Stellcom around 2001, drop me a note and tell me what an asshole I was.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @04:19AM
That would be whoever set up an interview for this guy who was obviously not qualified. Also, whoever in your company wasn't doing phone interviews before bringing someone on-site. It's not just about cost, but also embarrassment and goodwill.
Also, in 2001 when half the qualified coders in the country couldn't get jobs, no real reason to feel bad about not hiring someone who wasn't qualified. There were probably half a dozen people in line behind him who could pass the interview.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @05:22AM
What? That's the definition of white guilt.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Friday January 06 2017, @07:07AM
Good story. I never, believe or not, have a person of color for an interview. I have been threatened by white guys more than once, ‘You’ll regret not hiring me’ but never a person of color, and let’s be frank, I had many latinos but not anyone darker. (Sorry, SJW. I am considered a white boy in South Africa but not in the USA, so go figure.)
Anyway, back when this happened the company I was working for had instituted a policy that all first interviews would be done by HR, and then channeled to the appropriate department. I’m weird in the way that I don’t like anyone else deciding who is or might be working with me, so I always have done interviews.
So one day this guy comes into my office and asks my secretary for a meeting with me. I ask: What about? She says, about the job. I said, tell him to go HR first and then she replies, that he has already gone to HR but has been turned down.
For whatever reason, I liked his gall in walking in and seeking an interview when he was turned down already. He was in very poor clothes and not looking smart at all, but what the hell, he’s already in the office, so I interview him.
The guy doesn’t know much but is an eager learner and for no rational reason, I decide to hire him. Well I got a real problem with HR but at the time I had a lot of weight at the company so I was able to hire the guy.
For the many years he was my underling I called him ‘the mule’, meaning he would carry a large load without complaining and for some years, he was the only CISCO certified engineer in the region. (Won’t give details to protect the innocent.)
I’m ashamed of many things I did when I was young and stupid (now I’m old and stupid) but this one case gives me comfort: I got the right guy even when he didn’t look the part and his knowledge was lacking, somehow I saw his spirit and knew he would be all right, which he is, one the of the best network engineers I have ever met.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 06 2017, @09:46AM
We had a black woman try to keep her job (she was getting laid off from customer service and trying for a linux oriented tech job) where I was the tech interviewer. I went easy on her, but wound up eviscerating her in the end, because she also couldn't answer even the most basic questions. "What's Linux?" No? Ooookay, "What's the difference between TCP and UCP?" No? Ooookay... "uhh... tell me what you know about networking. Just, whatever pops into your head."
We dealt almost exclusively with Linux (and one or two Solaris using heathen clients) in software that was very network sensitive, like, tuning to the ms (and for the upper crust, ns) level. She would have been a burden that the organization couldn't have sustained, not to mention with myself as the sole defacto trainer (in addition to doing my actual job), since, you know, the actual training department got laid off. The hiring manger had my back the entire way through it. My point is that you shouldn't feel bad. You're not the asshole here. The assholes were the people who set the poor dude up to fail. You have a tiny ass subset of humanity for which it is your job to guard and keep moving forward. The fact that some other organization lead this one particular individual toward failure is NOT your fault.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 06 2017, @09:53AM
I... meant to reply to the OP. Apparently I am not as good at replying to things as I think I am at other things.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!