Response to "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google to Improve Diversity"

Race and gender should not be a deciding factor in job placement and hiring. According to nytimes.com men make up 83 percent of Google's engineering employees and 79 percent of its managers. NY times also stated that "Google said that of its 36 executives and top-ranking managers, just three are women. In 2012, Google's interest in hidden bias was sparked when Mr. Bock read an article in the New York Times, the effect of the article was so persuasive that researchers theorized the discrimination must be governed by unconscious cultural biases rather than overt sexism (nytimes.com). After its self-realization, Google could tackle the issue of hidden bias that was corrupting its company by putting its employees through training.

In my opinion skill should be the only deciding factor when hiring employees. Gender and race should not play a role when hiring, whether it be that the company simply faces a problem with being bias or in response being bias the company starts hiring more women and more diverse ethnic groups not based on skill but solely because they feel like they need more diversity in the company. in any case I feel like Google made the right decision when it put its employees through training.

There is evidence that the training is working. Mr. Bock says "suddenly you go from being completely oblivious to going, 'Oh my god, it's everywhere,' ". In a new building, someone pointed out that all of the buildings were named after male scientists, in the past this may have gone unmentioned, but this time the names were changed (nytimes.com).

All though the hidden bias problem seems to be getting better inside Google. Even Google does not know if this will lead to long term change for the company and even the tech industry as a whole (nytimes.com).