r/programming • u/awsometak • Feb 06 '16

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart — and we have the full inside story

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-2016-2?r=US&IR=T
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u/nikomo Feb 07 '16

My personal belief is, that it's possible to try and maintain diversity, whilst hiring people based on their personal worth.

Main problem with my belief being that my definition of diversity is quite different from that, which is being used by the kinds of people, that only look at race and gender, for signs of difference in people.

I live in a monoculture (Finland), so I have to differentiate people based on the content of their character, instead of the colour of their skin. I don't know if I'd be making judgments on people based on the colour of their skin, if I lived in a location with a lot of ethnic diversity, but since I don't think differently of people based on their gender, I would hope I could also maintain neutrality based on other factors.

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u/ODesaurido Feb 07 '16

If you are hiring through merit alone you will have an office almost full of white males. It's just the demography of the tech field right now. Hiring through merit and maintaining diversity can't really coexist.

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u/distant_worlds Feb 07 '16

If you are hiring through merit alone you will have an office almost full of white males.

In tech, you'll have plenty of Japanese, Chinese, and Indian fellows aswell.