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They hired new chief diversity officer, Danielle Brown - Brown talked with NPR last year, while at the chipmaker Intel. “I think maybe two or three specific th
by sbob 9y ago
They hired new chief diversity officer, Danielle Brown -
Brown talked with NPR last year, while at the chipmaker Intel. “I think maybe two or three specific things that explain our success,” she said. “The first thing is accountability. Setting these goals, communicating the goals, tying pay to the goals. I think that’s been key.”
She was at an important place at an important time. Intel had decided to do something no other tech giant had done before: publicly state how many women and underrepresented minorities it wanted to recruit, and how many it managed to retain. Of all new hires, Intel told the world, at least 40 percent would have to be women or underrepresented minorities.
This is obviously quotas.
- MollyR 9y agoSo I was googling some stuff based on your comment. Intel creates the diversity fund in 2015 for 125 million. https://www.fastcompany.com/3047239/why-intels-capital-diversity-fund-is-the-right-smart-and-wise-thing-to-do https://www.fastcompany.com/3047239/why-intels-capital-diver... Then a year later in 2016, lays off 11% of their workforce. http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/intel-confirms-major-layoff-11-percent-of-employees-to-go http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-c... Then in 2017, Google hires Danielle Brown the VP who pushed the diversity fund at intel. I'm beginning to think as a minority woman in tech, These diversity funds are worse than quotas. Whats the point in being hired, then fired a year later. I also suspect, every group is afraid of losing their job. Intel firing 11% of its workforce is scary example.
- nodamage 9y agoI think you're making some pretty big assumptions here. For starters, she was hired 2 months ago. Has she even had time to put any new programs in place yet? Second, you're assuming that whatever she did at Intel, she's intends (and will be able) to do the same at Google. Presumably the programs Damore criticizes in his memo have been around for a long time. Do any of those involve the use of quotas?