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According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is doubling referral bonuses for women, minorities and veterans. Employees can receive $4,000 bonuses for suggesting candidates that meet the company's diversity goals. Intel had previously pledged $300 million over the next five years to address "Silicon Valley's disappointing diversity numbers," and has set a goal of "full representation" of women and under-represented minorities by 2020:
The new programs at Intel and across the tech sector come as companies report little-changed diversity numbers. Intel's diversity statistics for 2014 showed 24 percent of Intel employees are female. The company is also predominantly white and Asian, with only 3.5% black and 8% Latino employees. The company did not include statistics about veterans in its report.
Christine Dotts, a spokeswoman for Intel, said in an email that higher recruiting bonuses have been used by the company in the last decade, but she declined to comment on when or how much the bonuses were for.
Also at The Register.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:31AM
I can't speak for actual corporate/business performance, but I used to work at Intel years ago, and there were far more female engineers there (proportionately) than any place else I've ever worked, by far. It was also in most ways the best workplace I've ever worked in, and having a reasonable number of female co-workers was a big help that way. Unlike engineering school and most workplaces, I didn't feel like I was trapped in some big sausagefest. On top of that, one other odd thing I noticed about Intel was that there were a LOT of tall people there. I'm a little over 6', and I seem to tower over everyone in most workplaces. But not at Intel; I felt like I was *average* height there.
Anyway, the women I worked with there didn't seem, on average, to be any more or less competent than the men. However, they were nicer to work with; there were some men who were assholes, but not a single woman was, they all had at least decent personalities, without exception. For that reason alone, I'd rather have more women in the workplace. Maybe this doesn't hold true for other professions (I've heard horrible things about women being bitches in some other workplaces, particularly legal), but in engineering, I've never met a woman who had a bad personality.
(Score: 3, Troll) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:17AM
I have had two different experiences in offices with lots of women. One was constant back-stabbing and all sorts of factions. This was only among the women, and didn't include any of the men.
It was a very nasty atmosphere, and one of the reasons I left.
My current job has about 40% women I guess. They are almost all Chemists (Chemical Engineering degrees mostly) and the atmos is great. They seem to get along very well, and I haven't noticed any factions at all.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:27PM
One was constant back-stabbing and all sorts of factions.
Was she an engineer?
I'm talking about female engineers, not generic females. I've heard bad things about women in certain office environments too, especially law offices. The type of women who go to work in law offices are NOT the type of women who go to engineering school. Same thing goes for men.
Women in HR can be a real pain too.
My current job has about 40% women I guess. They are almost all Chemists (Chemical Engineering degrees mostly) and the atmos is great.
See? My point exactly. Women in engineering = great. Women in legal and HR = bad.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 06 2015, @02:19AM
I may have phrased that badly. By one I mean one faction.
Yes, the fractious groups were all clerical type women, working in an open plan office, quite closely.
The Chemists are all nice enough people. It may be a coincidence but the only woman I don't really like is the HR woman.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday August 07 2015, @02:24AM
It may be a coincidence but the only woman I don't really like is the HR woman..
I seriously doubt that's a coincidence.
I've spent a fair amount of time and energy on online dating at different times in my life. The **only** time I remember a woman getting mad at me just in an email exchange (or really any time during dating; I emailed and even met lots of women, there just wasn't any interest on one side or the other) was a woman who worked in HR at a major retailer. The conversation went straight downhill when she complained about the quality of applicants she got in her job, and I suggested that maybe the low pay they offered had something to do with it and if they wanted better applicants, they needed to offer more money. That got a really nasty response from her and that was the end of that.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:50PM
SJW companies/projects go hand-in-hand with backdoors(intel vpro) and convoluted misfeatures that open up vulns (systemd).
They're made to make sure bad men cannot keep secrets (from the cunts and their government)