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Github Insider: It is Very Hard to Even Interview People Who Are White

posted by CoolHand on Monday February 08 2016, @07:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the money-talks dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

In a stunning example of failure to understand the meaning of the word equality, Github's "social impact team" is now actively discriminating against people based on gender and skin color; white women in particular:

One insider criticized GitHub's "social impact team," which is in charge of figuring out how to use the product to tackle social issues, including diversity within the company itself. It's led by Nicole Sanchez, vice president of social impact, who joined GitHub in May after working as a diversity consultant.

While people inside the company approve of the goal to hire a more diverse workforce, some think the team is contributing to the internal cultural battle.

"They are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging," this person said.

Sanchez is known for some strong views about diversity. She wrote an article for USA Today shortly before she joined GitHub titled, "More white women does not equal tech diversity."

At one diversity training talk held at a different company and geared toward people of color, she came on a bit stronger with a point that says, "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."

From a site policy standpoint, this really makes me want to argue for finding another host for our rehash repository, enormous pain in the ass though that would be.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @11:00PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 08 2016, @11:00PM (#301008) Homepage Journal

    SJW is quicker to say/type. cp, cd, rm, dd, cat, man, etc... There is much precedent for brevity by preference in this particular community.

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  • (Score: 2) by Post-Nihilist on Monday February 08 2016, @11:15PM

    by Post-Nihilist (5672) on Monday February 08 2016, @11:15PM (#301015)

    I now mostly work in a language where there is a strong fetishism for long terminologically correct strings of qualified nouns typed in camel case ... but as i do not wish to start another flame-war I will refrain from naming it.

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    • (Score: 2) by julian on Monday February 08 2016, @11:36PM

      by julian (6003) on Monday February 08 2016, @11:36PM (#301031)

      Ruby or Objective-C

      • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:28AM

        by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:28AM (#301116) Journal

        I thought he meant ECMAScript, there being no language more flamewarsy. I dunno about Obective-C, but I think Rubyists tend to shy away from camelCase.