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If you hire a woman over a man because of the "diverse opinion" you expect her to bring

Right, this is what I like to call the Google Fallacy. If you have a team that represents all genders, races, etc etc but they are all recent graduates of the same handful of CS programmes, then where does the diversity of opinions actually come from? This is why Google keeps making products and abandoning them when they fail to gain traction, or produce public disgust like Glass. To be actually diverse companies must move beyond the tickybox culture of just looking at gender and colour and look at actual lived experiences.




This is a PR fluff piece. How else do you explain them continually making products that appeal to no-one outside their demographic bubble?




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