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by civilian 1483 days ago
Have you not worked the last five years? Tech companies are chock full of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" talks
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I have never had one in 9 years of working at tech startups. It's a fair question to ask.
Startups are in survival or hyper growth mode. They don't usually have a lot of time for these topics as much as big tech.
That's probably because the startup didn't have a HR department. Antibias training is super common.
Both were over 300 people.

Perhaps an alternative idea can be considered: this ontology people have latched onto isn’t accurate and there can be people who don’t know the above answer because indeed they aren’t exposed to a whole lot of social issue talks at work.

It’s to prevent lawsuits, sweet cheeks.
You’re in for a treat!
Having talks on academic subjects is fine. Companies should do more of that. The issue is that corporate diversity discussions happen with all the education and nuance appropriate to elementary schoolers.

Because most of the people in these roles aren't actually well-educated in 'best practices', you get stuff like mandatory non-anonymized surveys that ask whether people are trans and send the results to managers, or slideshows talking about minority representation that omit Asians, Hispanics, and other 'common' groups.

curiously, i've seen many first hand accounts of DEI stuff- but no kind of researched journalism about what's going on, why, and how widespread it is