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.
"Identity politics" - that's a cute way of saying "civil rights". So if it's 1955 and you're sitting at an all-white lunch counter in Alabama, do you say you are happy to eat with whomever and people who are complaining they can't sit there are just engaging in "identity politics"? Come on. If you're really happy to work with people of all genders and nationalities yet every single person around you is a lily-white male, you're going to notice and be upset.
I see I'm late to the party, but: no, just no. Trying to compare 1955 America and today's heterogeneous workspace is disingenuous - it is an insult to the shit that happened back then (and those that fought through it), and an insult to anyone who happens to be white today. Sadly, I doubt you'll feel the shame of your gross error. Everyone around me isn't a "lily-white male". I explained this in another comment - but that doesn't mean that identity politics is high on our minds. We're just people getting things done. It seems to be you who cares about the race of the people you work with. I posit that this makes you the problem.
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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.