What are your thoughts, did it work? DEI needed?
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What makes you say those of us who think that hiring and recruiting should be based on merit/skill/experience are DEI haters?
We NEED diversity but it’s not what you think. Right now we have factions: Pure people hiring Pure people, MS people hiring MS people, and Cisco hiring Cisco. Often, they‘ll fire Netapp people to bring in their own.
However hope is on the horizon for you DEI haters. You will see a lot of Netapp jobs going to India soon, where even being in the wrong caste will mess you up.
Just my 2 cents... GK and most of the senior management are DEI hires/placed not merit based. DEI won't go anywhere till it is out of senior management and growth above 6B won't happen till GK and his whole cadre leave or are removed. The whole pivot to Cloud was nepotism to help his twin and so poorly performed I personally am surprised the stockholders left him in place. He promptly blamed sales and engineering. Nevermind he lost so many of out good engineers and some of our best customer base when he walked away from our core tech to be a 'cloud company'. He gave Pure the perfect opening to take market share. In any case the whole culture that made NA a great place to work shifted when GK took the reins and all forward/upward motion stalled.
NetApp's organizational structure has been largely influenced by DEI initiatives, resulting in several mid-level managers who were promoted to meet diversity criteria rather than merit. Unless NetApp commits to a strategic shift and places individuals in roles based on their ability to drive innovation, significant change is unlikely.
Getting rid of it is an excellent move. DEI is a terrible investment of resources across the board. At its best, it's a way for corporations to be inclusive, but it rarely performs function. At its worst, it's rooted in racist and ableist sentiment. All while providing essentially no real value to the company.
I fail to see how removing DEI is the first step to replacing US workers with H1Bs. Either way, more H1Bs are coming because Musk wants cheap labor and Trump has become is ventriloquial figure.
Well, last all hands they said they're keeping it but who knows.
Dont get your maga pa-ties too excited. Getting rid of DEI is just the first step to replacing most people with H1B visas. Guess where they'll come from.
DEI will continue at NetApp until Kurian and his direct reports make the change. Let’s see.