The days of silicone and synapses. Very small indie company.
Funny how people assumes sheās not qualified, just because of how she looks. T
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I was going to say South Korea single handily carried that game. I remember old B. net being flooded with Korean custom games.
They played at such a high skill level. We all knew better than to join of those games. We stuck with LAN in college.
Warcraft needs to grab all the markets. People want variety now and lots of it. None of us can agree on fun, but blizzard can see when and where we play.
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/sigh
No one said they would be hiring based color of skin and gender over qualifications.
I mean, you do know white males are not the only people qualified to work at a video game development company, right?
They will look at a pool of qualified applicants and decide based on who is going to bring the most diversity to the company to break up the toxic frat culture that they had going and instead contribute to creating a diverse culture with diverse ideas.
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NO no noā¦ they are not. This is a common misinterpretation of the article. They are not going for having 50% of the work force be women.
They want to increase their percentage of women and non-binary folks by 50%.
If they had 2 women out of 10, then a 50% increase would be raising it to 3 women.
Blizz is going for a 33%-ish portion of women/non-binary.
There are those who want to create false narratives that the ratio is higher than they are really doing, and that best qualified candidates are going to be excluded.
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Well, current studies agree with you. If you hire people who think like you, look like you, have a similar background to you, then the company stagnates.
The best way to get diversity of thought is to have a widely diverse team with widely different experiences. That starts with not hiring and promoting their buddies.
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I was there trying to become a teacher once. Only guy in my class among 30.
It didnāt work out. I love teaching. I just cannot hypertask. And now that Iām in a nursing like program, itās the same story. I am drawn to highly dominated female professions because I like helping people.
I just lack the ability to do 40 things at once, so I look kinda lost in the hospital. But I try hard every single day.
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Yes. and no.
Overseas government stuff you get the hires that due to setup are the obvious diversity hires with local nationals. As they are under a very specific hiring setup. They cannot take a US classed job. and we canāt apply for theirs.
Due to HRO rulesā¦jobs are defined only for the locals. It takes acts of god damn near to change a slot from one for US person to local national or vice versa.
Works out the though oversees. The local nationals are prepaid for translatorsā¦not being officially classified as one.
I agree and have lived this. I was very successful in TX and had a great career there with a great company. I moved to another state, ran my program from home till it was axed and I got downsized. I donāt fit in in the new state. I never networked in the area. Despite having years as a PM in a Fortune 25 company, I got no response in my new state.
I started over again as entry level because yeah, even in progressive liberal cities, they donāt like people who āThink Differentā ā¢
FYI - the reason this is so important to me is most of my live is nothing like a typical CIS white male. The one time my company did salary evals because they got suid saying they discriminated against women and minorities, I got the largest raise in my org because I was so underpaid. Apparently being a single parent does impact your pay and raisesā¦
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lgtb people are at most as a whole only ~7% (no clue on how many go into tech/gaming)
and woman in tech fieldsā¦again very low number(has went up slightly), realistically that they are removing more people who apply based off their looks then their qualifications
most people in gaming sphere as a WHOLE are going to be Asian/White males
(not including phone/facebook games in my definition of gaming)
cause if we include those there are more woman gamers then men and no uses the term that way when referring to gamers in my experience.
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If I said women only, I misspoke. My apologies. I thought I wrote diversity increase.
I think theyāre pandering to 1% crowd like most other companies are doing right now. If she good at her job then more power to her. For most people in here, we do want to ask questions about her qualification. Nothing in harm of asking that.
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Itās called Affirmative Action and the government has been shoving it down out throats for over half a century. Where you are handed the job because of race and gender not because youāre the best at it.
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Its not derogatory if the label fits.
Iām all for inclusively. I truly am.
But a lot of people are trying to fix it by swinging the pendulum the other way and thatās not cool.
We live in a world now where its fine to exclude and attack people for being straight, or white, or male.
Where its fine to commit hate speech upon these people.
We live in a world where its okay to not hire someone purely for being the above.
Being inclusive is amazing and is something we should strive towards.
But I think its important to remember what being inclusive actually means.
So no, I have to fully disagree that it was a derogatory term used against those who just want the world to be a better place.
Because it wasnt.
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Whatās wrong with a black woman being hired as a diverse officer? would you care to elaborate what exactly you mean by this statement?
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Yes it does and is one of the things that someone like the person Blizz hired is supposed to help address. Traditionally men did not care for the kids and did not need flex time to deal with them. Women did - and despite getting the same work done, they did need to leave for a hour or two then get back to a task later. Bosses were happy to accommodate a long golfing lunch for one colleague, but not a mom picking up a kid - when both got the job done properly. It was an excuse to keep salaries low despite work quality being the same.
You can, and should, ensure your workplace does not use your parent role against you - and that you are held to fair work standards. Glad you got the pay raise you deserved. I happens to men and women both - and salary reviews are a great way to address it. Fair is fair.
One of the goals of a diversity officer is ensuring parents are part of the work force and treated fairly for the work they do. MANY companies have become a lot more family friendly these days. Some even have day care/after care on site!
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I facepalm with the force of a thousand exploding suns.
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Hope your face is okay then
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Perhaps if they dedicated all that resource to the funding of the game instead of trying to front an image, maybe just maybe, we would have more than one major release every 5 years.
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