CosmicBurrito
CosmicBurrito

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....

12mo ago
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QuirkyMarshmallow
QuirkyMarshmallow

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.

SparklyBiscuit
SparklyBiscuit
Tekion11mo

BS

QuirkyMarshmallow
QuirkyMarshmallow

I take it that you are neither in the interview panel nor have a position to take an interview. So yes, what you write is pure BS

WobblyPancake
WobblyPancake
Meta11mo

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.

ZippyPancake
ZippyPancake

Fair point but maybe don't call them chicks lol

WobblyPancake
WobblyPancake
Meta11mo

@spymig isn't chick like dude? Is it derogatory?

SparklyBiscuit
SparklyBiscuit
Tekion12mo

Your manager is a wise man.

CosmicQuokka
CosmicQuokka

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.

ZippyPancake
ZippyPancake

Think the issue is that companies are taking away opportunities from non-diversity candidates, instead allocating resources to encouraging/upskilling diversity candidates

CosmicQuokka
CosmicQuokka

Agree

CosmicDumpling
CosmicDumpling

Which company is this?

SparklyBiscuit
SparklyBiscuit
Tekion12mo

This is quite common not specific to any company

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