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This is an excellent highlight of why diversity is so important on an engineering team and why companies work so hard to hire a diverse set of engineers.

I didn’t realize this until I took a training at Microsoft that explained they don’t hire people just for diversity, they host diversity hiring events to find the people they need to hire to make great products.

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Being somewhat of a 'diversity hire in cognito' - its one of those things that always stuck out to me. And it just makes sense - invite the people to the table who can tell you are about to do something really, exceptionally dumb before you do the something really, exceptionally dumb.

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