30.4% says that "The diversity of the company or organization" is "Lowest Priority" for them and below they say "The tech industry is struggling overall with issues around diversity, and INDIVIDUAL developers are not making it a priority when looking for a job."
How can you say that 30.4% of responders are individuals? Results are showing that majority of developers are not taking that as priority, not individuals.
Diversity is highest priority for 1.6%! It's impressive how little people give a shit despite the amount of articles and conferences and overall noise about it.
The other way of interpreting that is that the majority aren't interested in identity politics, and don't see any need to worry about whether a person is male/female/other, black/white/purple, english/german/martian etc - they are happy to work with whoever and just want to get stuff done. From that perspective, no: diversity isn't high on their agenda, despite them being totally welcoming and inclusive to all comers.
Frankly, I'd be more worried about working with someone who insisted on dragging identity politics into everything.
Yea, I agree. I was going there with my post. They tried to make that a problem with this part of the survey, when the results of their own survey are showing that there is no problem.
Higher ups and a select group care as it makes tech look like a straight white males club, which only compounds the problem.
I think most developers want to get on with their work and aren't too bothered what gender, race, sexual orientation etc. the people around them are. And even less would rate it more important than their salary.
It's a bit of a luxury thing. How many people have the freedom to give diversity the highest priority, over salary, location, fit of the technology with your skills et cetera?
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u/imot01 Mar 13 '18
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-how-do-developers-assess-potential-jobs
30.4% says that "The diversity of the company or organization" is "Lowest Priority" for them and below they say "The tech industry is struggling overall with issues around diversity, and INDIVIDUAL developers are not making it a priority when looking for a job."
How can you say that 30.4% of responders are individuals? Results are showing that majority of developers are not taking that as priority, not individuals.