{"id":47987,"date":"2019-04-22T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47987"},"modified":"2019-04-21T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:10:14","slug":"internal-challenges-to-microsofts-current-discriminatory-hiring-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/internal-challenges-to-microsofts-current-discriminatory-hiring-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal challenges to Microsoft’s current discriminatory hiring practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Quartz<\/em>, Dave Gershgorn<\/a> looks at how Microsoft is facing internal dissent over their current hiring practices, which actively encourage discrimination against certain racial and gender groups:<\/p>\n

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Some Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online messaging board meant for communicating with CEO Satya Nadella.<\/p>\n

Two posts on the board criticizing Microsoft diversity initiatives as \u201cdiscriminatory hiring\u201d and suggesting that women are less suited for engineering roles have elicited more than 800 comments, both affirming and criticizing the viewpoints, multiple Microsoft employees have told Quartz. The posts were written by a female Microsoft program manager. Quartz<\/em> reached out to her directly for comment, and isn\u2019t making her name public at this point, pending her response.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes Microsoft have any plans to end the current policy that financially incentivizes discriminatory hiring practices? To be clear, I am referring to the fact that senior leadership is awarded more money if they discriminate against Asians and white men,\u201d read the original post by the Microsoft program manager on Yammer, a corporate messaging platform owned by Microsoft. The employee commented consistently throughout the thread, making similar arguments. Quartz<\/em> reviewed lengthy sections of the internal discussion provided by Microsoft employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have an ever-increasing file of white male Microsoft employees who have faced outright and overt discrimination because they had the misfortune of being born both white and male. This is unacceptable,\u201d the program manager wrote in a comment later. The Microsoft employees who spoke to Quartz<\/em> said they weren\u2019t aware of any action by the company in response, despite the comments being reported to Microsoft\u2019s human resources department.<\/p>\n

When contacted by Quartz<\/em>, Microsoft pointed to comments by three company officials in the message-board threads. A member of Microsoft\u2019s employee investigations team responded to the initial post in January, writing that the company does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. Another Microsoft staff member, who leads the team that helps the board of directors determine executive pay, explained the diversity-based compensation initiative. \u201cOur board and executive leadership team believe diverse and inclusive teams are good for business and consistent with our mission and inspire-to culture,\u201d she wrote. \u201cLinking compensation to these aspirations is an important demonstration of executive commitment to something we believe strongly in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Quartz, Dave Gershgorn looks at how Microsoft is facing internal dissent over their current hiring practices, which actively encourage discrimination against certain racial and gender groups: Some Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online messaging board meant for communicating with CEO Satya Nadella. Two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,15,13],"tags":[95,94,99,303],"class_list":["post-47987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology","category-usa","tag-jobs","tag-microsoft","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ctZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47989,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47987\/revisions\/47989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}