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Cali4lifeBreanna Edwards
3/28/17 3:03pm
“This report is the first step...” Noooooppppee. It’s not. You’ve SEEN all the white male faces all throughout upper management. You’ve seen few women (especially black women) you’ve seen few black men and hispanic women and men.. and yet.. you did nothing! That, Mr. jerk ceo was your first step which you conveniently ignored. Then for a second step, you refused to provide data showing just how racist you and your pals are and have been. Then for a third step you systemically sexually harassed women at all levels. Oh, and for 1, 2, and 3a, you lied and said your drivers tips were included in the fares knowing that they never were.
You are a garbage company run by garbage people.
You have to ability to fix so much of your issues - not a college tour or a feel good forced “training” on how to be allies - fuck you. Here is what you do:
1. Commit to hiring x number of key executives in the next 90 days who are black, hispanic, male and female, placing them in key roles in leadership.
2. Commit to hiring x number of black and hispanic engineers over the next 6 months to fill 80% of your open positions - reverse what you’ve been doing for whites and Asians, in other words - Good-goose-gander.
3. Fire and replace ALL your HR, recruiting, and hiring staff and replace them all with black and hispanic females and males. None deserve their jobs after what they’ve done.
4. Force your stupid CEO to resign
5. Open a fucking call center in the States so folk can fucking reach you morons with issues about their rides, fares, etc.
6. Update your app to allow tipping
7. Pay your drivers more
8. Replace your board with black and hispanic persons - at least 3 total.
These are steps you could do right now if you are serious.
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  weapon-a the first try suffers no trollsCali4life
  3/28/17 4:10pm
  While I agree that Uber is in many ways a shit company, and I agree with many of your suggestions, your timetable is unworkable in the real world for a company which wants to be taken seriously. Even if they can recruit highly competent people of color to fill all the roles you mention (it can be done, though maybe not by them), doing so in such a short time, opens them up to accusations of hiring incompetent people. Though my first instinct is “wgaf”, this could have a negative impact on the company internally and externally. I do need to see action from this company rather than just words. I am somewhat encouraged by these particular words though:
  “The report notes that Uber’s recruiting team will set out on a college tour to recruit students at colleges across the country, including at a number of HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions, or HSIs.”
  The paragraph following that one lists other positive steps they pledge to take to widen the pool of prospective employees, with an eye toward diversity. It’s been obvious for anyone looking, that the lack of diversity in these companies is largely due to how they recruit, not a lack of qualified women and people of color who can excel there. If they actually do what they say they are gonna do, and do so well, then we will see an improvement in the company’s diversity. Not gonna hold my breath, but I hope they actually do...
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  Cali4lifeweapon-a the first try suffers no trolls
  3/28/17 4:16pm
  I hear you and the points are good. I’ll hold to my timeline though because I have done it and seen it done. Like you I also like the college tours... and you know what? There are PLENTY of folk out of college right now, many who applied and have been turned down by uber - not because they are unqualified, but because uber’s recruiting/hiring people are biased. Simply going back through their database will present them with a whole host of viable candidates that can be hired yesterday. The college tour helps the pipeline while also helping them kick the can down the road and then give fake updates for the next few years: started campus tours, more to come, seeing first wave of applicants, hired 3, started more college tours, expanding our college tours to get more <— now you’re 3 years out and nothing has happened.
  If their jobs depended on it and their livelihoods, they’d get it done. I also don’t think the timeline would bring about unqualified folk. That’s HR talk for we’re lazy and protecting our jobs so we’re stringing this out.
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sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameBreanna Edwards
3/28/17 3:08pm
I worked for a tech startup for a little bit. They talked about diversity a lot for a place that was almost exclusively white guys. That’s when I realized I was the diversity hire. So I decided I’d try to do something about it. They were searching for another designer so I found a woman candidate who was raw and inexperienced but had good instincts and tried to get her on the ID team (Industrial Designers are almost exclusively guys for some reason). I was told point blank that they weren’t going to hire “for diversities sake” and they didn’t want to “mess with the group dynamic”. So they hired a guy who was raw and inexperienced but had good instincts.

Like, I don’t even know why they pretend.
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  LJ909sTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
  3/28/17 5:30pm
  Reminds me of that one episode of the Wayans Brothers years ago where this company just hired Shawn to qualify for some diversity program for the government.
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  MorninBoehnersTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
  3/28/17 5:34pm
  Only thing worse than being the diversity hire is being the perpetual diversity candidate. Getting called in for interviews all the time and never getting a job offer despite being told by multiple sources that you interview really well.
  But oh no we just hired the best candidate. See? We even talked to this little girl! We just really loved my buddy’s nephew Chad. He’ll be a great culture fit for us.
  On the off chance they do hire you, they send you off in to the world to be seen by the public so that they can frame themselves as a DIVERSE company that values DIVERSITY! Nevermind that you’re the ONLY person in a technical role who isn’t a white dude.
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Absent HumanityBreanna Edwards
3/28/17 2:34pm
Gotta love how the leadership for tech roles is 75% white and 25% Asian. No other races are getting a piece of that.
And by “love” I mean throw up in my mouth.
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  Breanna EdwardsAbsent Humanity
  3/28/17 2:58pm
  that stuck out to me as well! That’s not sending any messages at all though, of course /s
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EvenBaggierTrousers5Breanna Edwards
3/28/17 2:44pm
A tech company admitting a lack of diversity and vowing to improve... why are you reposting stories from 2006?
Oh, wait...
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TRT-XBreanna Edwards
3/28/17 2:28pm
This reminds me of how Twitter comes out every 6 months or so and promises to do better to clean up the abusive behavior on the platform and then does something like verify Richard Spencer or David Duke instead of just banning them.
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eoghan01Breanna Edwards
3/28/17 2:35pm
But at least they have a diverse group at the head of their report....
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KentBreanna Edwards
3/28/17 5:26pm
Could it be that white males are also the biggest group of people who are qualified for the positions?
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  KimJongIllinKent
  3/28/17 5:31pm
  Get out of your here with your logic. When I was in college getting a computer science degree the program (which was pretty small) was mostly white and Asian men. We had three women in the entire program (all four years, not just my class) and two black men. The demographics of tech departments at software companies pretty much match that of computer science programs across the country.
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