All of the actual reporting, internal documentation, and employee testimonials indicate this is a management issue, not an employee competency issue, and that it goes back to the shotgun wedding with McDonald Douglass. I know you’d like the scary TLA to be the culprit here, but it’s not - you’re going to have to go look for something to confirm your bias somewhere else.
Additionally, you would be hard pressed to find a corporation of that size which hasn't made some kind of DEI pledge over the years. Here's a page on Nvidia 's website [1] talking about their supposed commitment to DEI. How are we to know that Nvidia's wild success of late isn't due to their inclusivity?
Of course we know Nvidia's rise has nothing to do with DEI, because we understand the context - there's an AI boom and they're selling shovels. By the same token, we know that Boeing's cultural rot has nothing to do with DEI, because people have been talking about this for decades.
Personally I think this is empty rhetoric companies employ to boost their stock price by getting included in ESG indexes. Political commentators on the right take advantage of this to fan the flames of culture war.
Don't fall for either side of this grift. It's just people talking their book.
I wonder if non-white people are tired of being pawns in this game which seems largely to be played between white people. How demoralizing it must be to know that a non-trivial number of the people you interact with professionally believe you are only there because of the color of your skin and not your qualifications.
The whole idea of DEI is that there are competent people that have been overlooked because of extraneous factors. If you have evidence that this led to hiring incompetent people you should probably provide it.
I've seen this claim around but IMHO this is an attempt to spew smoke and blame-shift. Check out the board and C-suite. It ain't that diverse.
What I've heard is that they cleaned house of everyone who "made too much" (meaning the senior people), outsourced a lot, did the usual MBA-style hollowing out maneuver. If DEI played any role it was as a lame excuse to cut down all the tall poppies and avoid age discrimination or union objections. The real motive would have been to dump all the people whose salaries were too high and replace them with fresh out of college or offshore workers.
roughly|1 year ago
maxbond|1 year ago
Of course we know Nvidia's rise has nothing to do with DEI, because we understand the context - there's an AI boom and they're selling shovels. By the same token, we know that Boeing's cultural rot has nothing to do with DEI, because people have been talking about this for decades.
Personally I think this is empty rhetoric companies employ to boost their stock price by getting included in ESG indexes. Political commentators on the right take advantage of this to fan the flames of culture war.
Don't fall for either side of this grift. It's just people talking their book.
[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/careers/diversity-...
Sohcahtoa82|1 year ago
Not likely, it seems it takes a LOT to get banned from HN.
But still, the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist.
rootusrootus|1 year ago
ggdG|1 year ago
That's not an assumption that GP makes.
nullserver|1 year ago
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api|1 year ago
What I've heard is that they cleaned house of everyone who "made too much" (meaning the senior people), outsourced a lot, did the usual MBA-style hollowing out maneuver. If DEI played any role it was as a lame excuse to cut down all the tall poppies and avoid age discrimination or union objections. The real motive would have been to dump all the people whose salaries were too high and replace them with fresh out of college or offshore workers.
corinroyal|1 year ago