<story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neerkumar</author><text>Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3&amp;#x2F;4 years knows that this has happened everywhere.&lt;p&gt;In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is that that&amp;#x27;s a game that once the first company starts playing it, everyone else is forced to play it too.&lt;p&gt;Company X publishes a report with amazing diversity numbers and brands itself as a great company for certain minorities and diversity in general, along with some unbelievable BS about how they achieved that. At that point, you have to introduce quotas too to get similar numbers or your brand and recruiting will be strongly affected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netheril96</author><text>This starts with the [diversity pledge](&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thehill.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;284517-white-house-pressures-30-tech-companies-to-sign-diversity-pledge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thehill.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;284517-white-house-pres...&lt;/a&gt;) pushed by Obama administration, including companies like Airbnb, Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium.&lt;p&gt;No wonder many Asians sigh relief when Clinton failed her presidency, or she surely would have pushed for more.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neerkumar</author><text>Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3&amp;#x2F;4 years knows that this has happened everywhere.&lt;p&gt;In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is that that&amp;#x27;s a game that once the first company starts playing it, everyone else is forced to play it too.&lt;p&gt;Company X publishes a report with amazing diversity numbers and brands itself as a great company for certain minorities and diversity in general, along with some unbelievable BS about how they achieved that. At that point, you have to introduce quotas too to get similar numbers or your brand and recruiting will be strongly affected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not about recruiting. It&amp;#x27;s about lawsuits. Companies with more than 100 employees are legally obligated to report demographic information to the EEOC. The EEOC reviews this information when someone files a complaint alleging discrimination.&lt;p&gt;If similar companies in the same industry and geography have numbers that show a more diverse demographic profile, the EEOC is much more likely to consider a discrimination complaint non-frivolous, which is required to file a lawsuit alleging employer discrimination (as I understand it; not a lawyer).&lt;p&gt;Companies play this game a) to protect themselves against lawsuits; and b) to potentiate damage to competitors who are not yet explicitly playing this game, and therefore have correspondingly less demographic diversity.</text></comment>