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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Depends where you work.
For large business, it’s a very fine balance. You want diversity hires because in the long run you may attract the top tier applicant because of that diversity.
On the flip side, when you intentionally hire diversity to fill a quota over the best candidate, you just create all sorts of problems internally.
I’ve seen both and the latter generally turns out very ugly.
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I think that's what separates good managers, CEOs, etc from the others. You can be smart enough to understand that the better candidate has less qualifications due to some type of lack of opportunity, or the worse candidate has better qualifications due to excess opportunity and connections.
I don't think someone should get a free pass because they are a minority, but I do think that people in positions of power, may look a little closer at the details, if they are smart.