Tech firm apologizes after job ad seeks 'preferably Caucasian' candidates

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The tech industry has long grappled with problems tied to diversity and inclusion, but a job listing this month seeking “preferably Caucasian” applicants has proved a particularly egregious example.

 

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As a black woman working in tech, I say more fool them! The only silver lining is the explicit signposting of a potential workplace that is going to treat me like crap because I'm anything but Caucasian 🤣 everycloud

lol I'm a light-skinned Indian, have a white-passing accent and I once took an introductory course in Python programming. Maybe I should apply.

Job interviews are affirmative action for White people.

Identity politics x

This is unlawful

Caucasian is American newspeak. This stupid description has never existed in Europe

What about the organisations requesting such ‘characteristics’ about candidates!? Recruiters should be refusing to work with such companies.

wow really

Oh my god oh my god oh my god.

There’s only one race, the human race, and physical beings and objects have no colour of their own. Colour is just a wavelength of reflected light.

Why apologise? Many jobs are open ONLY to BAME candidates. Let's have some consistency. Anything else is racism.

But it's fine when firms wanna hire only women/minorites?

😂 like the racist bbc job adverts?

Guess they’ll just go back to doing it and not outright saying that’s what they are doing.

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