Diversity Hiring
My company is only hiring females for most of the positions. Now I dont really care about the gender/race/religion of the people getting hired but they must have right skillset and attitude.
But most of the candidates who have been hired have none of these two. My team has almost 50 percent female candidates but they have been into the team for almost 6 months but still don't perform upto the mark. In some cases, college freshers are able to get the job done faster than these folks. Availability is also a big challenge and it's difficult to approach them to work beyond working hours even for small things that would take 30 mins or 1 hour. They just reply by saying I have logged ofr for the day. And manager would ask a guy to do the job. And let me confirm that the management expect us to be available 24/7 as its a business and operationally driven company. The manager dont ask females to work after working hours in most of the cases. They only work after working when the entire team is working. If its the individual owner who has to act, tgen it surely goes to any male guy. and everyone is super pissed of because despite working and giving more than 100 percent, the teams productivity doesn't justify the head counts.
In my experience, diversity hiring should be done with caution. Candidates hired should have almost same level of knowledge and skillset as of the team and they should be told about the work culture, expectations at the time of hiring. Also people who don't need a job should avoid joining such culture as they aren't not sincere about their job and will be hated by everyone in the team due to these differences.
Recently When I raised this concern to my manager, he said that I should avoid saying all this as it or else if this goes to HR, cases of posh may be slaaped onto me. I am really pissed off, planning to change the job asap. Not sure what kind of work culture have we created....
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How do u know it is a diversity hire only? Were you ok the hiring panel. I am in such a panel and diversity hire is given a preference only if the candidate is a hire and passed all the rounds. There is no question of lowering the bar.
affirmative action is fucking dumb, my company once asked us not to hire any freshers unless its a female in which case anything goes. Two chicks joined and left within 3 months but hey we have better diversity so its fine.
Your manager is a wise man.
I seen a diversity hired amazon intern, didn't got ppo now working for 4lpa dxc technology
Overtime without skills, incompetent folks would be shown the door sooner or later, have faith be patient.
Think the issue is that companies are taking away opportunities from non-diversity candidates, instead allocating resources to encouraging/upskilling diversity candidates
Agree
Frnd of frnd, a BA4( assist. Mgr) at barclays,met at a raat ka program on my flat. Told me he would first reach out to all the girls whenever there is some business requirement out of office hours obviously they would refuse it. He does this to feed it in their mind they don't exceed the expectations. Constantly saying no creates a burden in their mind. Now, on performance review, he would give eg of the male staff who did that out of shift work and actually deserves the EE or O rating. He made sure none of these non deserving quota girls get EE rating , unless ofcourse if you are cut out.
And at my previous org, in my team they were too biased towards females. We were 2 girls and we were made to work after office hours, late nights. The male ones didn't knew shit about the codebase or even basic coding skills. Management was very misogynistic and favored the guys and thought they were much better.
I left that place and well their entire team comprises of all males that too unskilled ones .
I think the biasness in ur company is not coz of girls. Its just some weird people are biased towards certain people
Management is shit . It should be no working after working hours for all
Barclays is king in diversity hiring. I wonder how come these sucker do not even lay off thay often