Comment by jorvi
1 year ago
Interestingly enough the same terror of political correctness seems to take center stage at Mozilla. But then it seems much less so at places like Microsoft or Apple.
I wonder if there’s a correlation with being a tech company that was founded in direct relation to the internet vs. being founded in relation to personal / enterprise computing, and how that sort of seeds the initial culture.
Is Microsoft really better? Remember this[1] bizarre intro during Microsoft Ignite?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRtucXGeNQ
The "land acknowledgement" part is somewhat common in the Pacific Northwest.
The "stating my appearance, dress, and race" is just bizarre. My most charitable interpretation is that they're trying to help visually impaired people to imagine what the speakers look like. Perhaps there are visually impaired users here who could comment on whether that's something they'd find helpful?
You can always do described video, so this is just awkward and sloppy.
It's cringy, but it's harmless.
I’d imagine Google’s culture is more Mao-ist public shaming. Here at Mozilla, we like Stalin. Go against the orthodoxy? You’re disappeared and killed quickly.
We have hour long pronoun training videos for onboarding; have spent millions on DEI consultants from things like Paradigm to boutique law firms; tied part of our corporate bonus to company DEI initiatives.
Not sure why anyone uses FF anymore. We barely do any development on it. You basically just sit here and collect between 150-300k depending on your level as long as you can stomach the bullshit.
I really doubt there are any Stalinists at Mozilla. My 85 y/o grandpa who's a communist's communist calls the modern DEI left "Trotskyists to a fault": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
He would dismiss any whiff of intersectionality as "dividing the working class in the interests of bourgeoisie."
Or perhaps it's Google's hiring process - they are so obsessed with Leetcode-style interviews, they do not vet for the actual fit.
If it was just leetcode I think they would have gotten someone who was politically incorrect enough to point it out.
Like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
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