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Wanted to highlight Prudential Financial’s hiring practices. They rescinded my offer once I attempted to negotiate the salary. The official reason given was that I didn’t “sound excited enough”.
They then admittedly gave the offer to someone who was less qualified. There were other red flags throughout the job offer process that the HR team should overall be ashamed of.
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I don't think framing it is a conflicting binary is accurate. Every team needs a clear and concise north star/vision/mission. And numerous research studies show that diverse teams with diverse perspectives, perform better, as they are less inclined to succumb to group think. A team leader (or leaders) who can artfully navigate this balance while making clear, concise *final decisions* is also essential to success.
Speaking from my experience, diversity is a really good ingredient to have for a strong team. It does not guarantee high-performance of course as all groups of people -if they are ever to become a real team- need to transition through phases and regressions may occur.
On the contrary, a team with too little diversity, runs the risk of creating an echo chamber where the same ideas are recycled over and over and with confirmation bias being magnified as time passes. This is a quick recipe for a highly dysfunctional team in a very short time.
Much of the evidence that diverse teams perform better is correlational at best. And we all know that “correlation does not imply causation.” The common finding is that diverse companies perform better financially. All kinds of OTHER things might explain why it would appear that diversity improves profits. For example, maybe some industries rely on foreign workers more and also have been successful recently (like tech). I see little evidence that diverse teams do anything better if we are talking about racial and ethnic and cultural diversity. What I have seen is that cross disciplinary teams do better work. The disciplines often have different kinds of people in them. For example, a UX designer will likely be a different kind of person than a programmer. The conflicts between disciplines are intentional. There actually SHOULD be tension between QA and Development. Or UX and PM or whatever. If any one group gets too much power, the work suffers.
Alignment on common goals and communication is the key
You said it right there ' shared goal' if the team has one goal this is the strength to achieve!