Posted on 10/11/2022 12:56:49 PM PDT by karpov
From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically over time and between companies. At Microsoft, I became concerned about diversity and inclusion policies that required me to sacrifice what I viewed as the best way to serve the company’s mission, particularly as it affected work prioritization, hiring, and promotions.
Large companies like Microsoft have a major impact on their billions of users. But they also influence other companies’ cultures and policies, since former employees move on to other firms and use what they learned, and some people view things being done at large successful corporations as “best practices.” How these cultural and policy issues manifest themselves at universities has received a lot of attention. My aim in writing this piece is to raise awareness of what’s going on inside one of the world’s most valuable companies.
I’m publishing this article pseudonymously because I fear I would be fired or many companies would in the future refuse to hire me for writing it.
Microsoft classifies its employees by race, gender, and other categories, and aims to increase the shares of employees in preferred groups. This is not a secret. Microsoft has publicly committed to racial equity, including an effort to “double the number of US Black and African American, and Hispanic and Latinx people managers, senior individual contributors, and senior leaders.” The company publishes an annual report on Diversity & Inclusion (hereafter shortened to “D&I”) in which it tracks its progress toward such goals.
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The rise and fall of large companies-—THIS.
Thank you I was wondering why their products so terrible. Now I know.
The added problem is that there is NO RECOURSE for being discriminated against in this "Woke" culture appropriation, as the Courts have been polluted with "Woke" Judges and Justice System destruction.
Never noticed Bill’s ears before....., but his haircut is looking better.....
I’ve been watching this biased stupidity up close for the last decade at electric utility companies.
Absolutely undeserving people getting promotions because they’re not white males.
That’s their only qualification, not white male.
As an added benefit, women and minorities who ARE qualified for the jobs they hold are constantly looked at sideways.
Equity is opposed to equality.
May explain why the quality of their software has declined over the years. I could post numerous example, but why waste you time.
Mega corporations with huge government contracts that are selling something worth pennies for hundreds of dollars can get away with that stupidity. Especially if they leverage their weight to make sure the government goes after every 15 year old copying their OS years past (”piracy is not a victimless crime” remember that slogan?). Of course when it’s MS running Netscape out of business using illegal business practices, or stealing other people’s ideas such as with Borland (.net framework), then it’s OK to copy things.
When IBM was willing to use the MS OS and basically made them the industry standard, they were paying $1 per computer for the licence - that should give you an idea of what it’s really worth. Pennies, literally.
The “mom and pop shop” Biden loves to mention cannot afford these games, they would go broke. Now, the big philanthropist Gates (who stole ideas, ran the competition under with illegal practices), wants to create a lasting legacy of what a great guy he is.
Gates is just a greasy head, a nerd with a silver spoon in his mouth, whose father became rich by being a lawyer for the abortion industry, who today leverages his political influence to get richer and richer but he’s neither a genius nor moral. Just another American oligarch that visited Epstein’s island and where the DOJ can’t see, hear or do anything.
He’s gotten a bit better since 98: https://youtu.be/kjm2ZZg6MAQ (I’m surprised they haven’t taken this down from YouTube).
But yes, MS like Google, big pharma or some others that have profit margins in the thousands of percent on a product can afford all sorts of stupid nonsense.
It isn’t just Microsoft. It is every major company in the US. Do yourselves a favor, skip applying for a job at one of these places. Sooner or tomorrow they will start drowning in their own sea of the mediocre talent that they have hired in the name of “equity and inclusion.”
What are the benefits of diversity?
Those are simply leftist fantasies -- lies. The "attract and retain the best talent" is especially dishonest, since hiring based on sex and skin melanin content specifically undermines hiring by merit. Also, it may be illegal.>Inspires more creativity and fosters greater innovation.
>Allows us to attract and retain the best talent.
>Gives greater opportunity for personal and professional growth.
I hope some lawyers are salivating at the prospect of a class action lawsuit against Microsoft.
No wonder they can’t seem to get their software right.
In the F1000 its a one-upmanship game at the VP level, vis a vis the board. Its worse, IMHO, where the company is in a very stable market position, a monopoly or near to.
We had some of these things (F500 company, 30 years, retired 2020), other than the apparently extreme emphasis and the hiring quotas. In our case it was more of a nice to have rather than a have to have. Maybe because most of the hiring pool was in California and for technical positions was already very mixed, or rather majority non-white. Higher management was very white.
What we did have was a large number of Indian H1b and contractors.
“Now, the big philanthropist Gates (who stole ideas, ran the competition under with illegal practices), wants to create a lasting legacy of what a great guy he is.”
Isn’t that what they always do? Men like Carnegie, Stanford, Rockefeller, and Ford among others were some very shady characters with rather dubious, and many times illegal business practices that destroyed people’s lives in the process, but they always play the benevolent philanthropist before they die in an attempt to blot out their sins.
I once had the opportunity to eat at a Microsoft cafeteria. I was the only person there who was over 40.
Let’s say how it really is.
America is a country where you have a few huge trend setters and whatever they adopt everyone else copies.
Look at the American box hotels, chain restaurants, car rental, education... America is a place that talks a lot about diversity, but good luck finding it if you consider differences in ideas.
The centralization of power in Washington DC where today rules are written that even dictate what light bulb you use or how much water a toilet uses per flush combined with the fact that the US is really an oligopoly where a few mega corporations run the show have made it a very “uniform” place. Everyone has the same bikes from Walmart, you’ll stay in a hotel with the same basic layout regardless of where you’re at, all insurance are the same basically (government dictates what’s covered), every mall has the same stores, every public school is the same (the differences are all over blown nonsense), all your box/chain restaurants, corporate agra and FDA have made food the same.
What are the odds that if you go out to eat it’ll be in a chain restaurant?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_restaurant_chains_in_the_United_States. Much higher than you think. And all the food came from a handful of big suppliers, with national regulations... Diversity? Hardly. Even the oil used to cook your food in is defined by government. If a chef and want to use raw milk in some special dish, can I do that?
Where is this diversity in America? In the MSM which is really just 5 media conglomerates?
https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI
Or is it in big tech where Meta owns FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, occulus... 94 companies in all? What’s the market share of Googles search engine? 92%
Diversity in America means race and sex, maybe sexual orientation, but not in ideas anymore. If you have an idea that goes against the fad, may it be Covid or climate change, you’ll get censored and made out as a pariah.
Centralized power in DC and monopolies/oligopolies have made the US a very monotone place, even though folks don’t see it.
Microsoft has never been based on merit
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