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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

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739 points firebaze | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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gadders ◴[05 Feb 25 16:23 UTC] No.42950801[source]▶
This is so depressing. This is the sort of DEI effort that gives the rest a bad name.

It should never, ever be about hard quotas.

It absolutely should be about using some contextual information (factoring the person's school environment in) and challenging assumptions about stereotypes so that you are not deciding who is best on assumptions but on evidence.

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readthenotes1 ◴[05 Feb 25 21:10 UTC] No.42955174[source]▶
"This is the sort of DEI effort that gives the rest a bad name."

I'd be interested to read about a DEI effort that gives the rest a good name.

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1. gadders ◴[06 Feb 25 07:57 UTC] No.42960134[source]▶
Another example is to make your recruiting contextual. How would you rate two candidate - one that grew up dirt poor and when to the worst public schools but gets 90% on your test, vs one that went to the best private schools and got 95%?

You can also do things to remove stereotypes about your industry - "I'm not going to work in industry X because it's all posh people."