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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8035162" data-attributes="member: 5948">This is more than a bit over-simplistic.&nbsp; 'Better fit personality-wise' is a real double-edged sword, and can lead on you doubling down on an unhealthy culture.&nbsp; If a company has (for example) a culture of going out for 27 beers after work every Friday, then if you only hire people who embrace this culture then you're not going to hire many observant Muslims.&nbsp; Or many people with young kids.&nbsp; Or many people who don't live near the office.&nbsp; And this will not be a good thing, because if you have no employees at your office who are Muslim or have young kids, your products will lack those perspectives.&nbsp; Not to mention that 'better fit personality-wise' is often corporate-speak code for 'will not rock the boat and call us out on our crap'.&nbsp; The history of, for example, workplace sexual harassment complaints is littered with cases where the victim of harassment complained, then was shunned or demoted or let go or whatever for 'not being a team player' or 'not being a good cultural fit', especially when an offender was high-ranking or seen as irreplaceable talent (whether technical or artistic or whatever).&nbsp; And 'close enough in qualifications' is a tough one too, especially in a creative industry like the space WotC works in.&nbsp; As 20 years of edition wars on this board will tell you, RPG design is a very subjective business.&nbsp; If you're interviewing two people, one of which produces a portfolio of material in genres that are familiar to you and which you could see incorporating into your games, and one produces a portfolio based on completely different cultural/narrative assumptions, which you find strange or unfamiliar or uncomfortable - that's just things being different, not better/worse.&nbsp; But sometimes you need to hire the latter candidate because they might be able to bring new things to the table than the 'good fit' former candidate might not. Oh, and just dismissing quota hiring as universally bad in also profoundly oversimplified and incorrect.&nbsp; It is often a necessary tool to improve the culture of an organisation that's gotten to be a comfy groupthink boys' club.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8035162, member: 5948"] This is more than a bit over-simplistic. 'Better fit personality-wise' is a real double-edged sword, and can lead on you doubling down on an unhealthy culture. If a company has (for example) a culture of going out for 27 beers after work every Friday, then if you only hire people who embrace this culture then you're not going to hire many observant Muslims. Or many people with young kids. Or many people who don't live near the office. And this will not be a good thing, because if you have no employees at your office who are Muslim or have young kids, your products will lack those perspectives. Not to mention that 'better fit personality-wise' is often corporate-speak code for 'will not rock the boat and call us out on our crap'. The history of, for example, workplace sexual harassment complaints is littered with cases where the victim of harassment complained, then was shunned or demoted or let go or whatever for 'not being a team player' or 'not being a good cultural fit', especially when an offender was high-ranking or seen as irreplaceable talent (whether technical or artistic or whatever). And 'close enough in qualifications' is a tough one too, especially in a creative industry like the space WotC works in. As 20 years of edition wars on this board will tell you, RPG design is a very subjective business. If you're interviewing two people, one of which produces a portfolio of material in genres that are familiar to you and which you could see incorporating into your games, and one produces a portfolio based on completely different cultural/narrative assumptions, which you find strange or unfamiliar or uncomfortable - that's just things being different, not better/worse. But sometimes you need to hire the latter candidate because they might be able to bring new things to the table than the 'good fit' former candidate might not. Oh, and just dismissing quota hiring as universally bad in also profoundly oversimplified and incorrect. It is often a necessary tool to improve the culture of an organisation that's gotten to be a comfy groupthink boys' club. [/QUOTE]

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