Tech Racial Diversity
Discussions debate the racial and ethnic composition of tech companies and CS fields, noting overrepresentation of Asians and Indians, underrepresentation of Blacks and Hispanics compared to US population, and whether disparities stem from discrimination, pipelines, or qualifications.
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Nope. It’s a lot whiter than u think https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech
Really seen the stats for the big tech companies? its not white males that are over represented compared to the USA's population its Black, Latino and Females that are under represented
The problem you’re describing is extremely rare in tech. The industry is full of immigrants and people of color; I’ve personally never worked on a team with more than 30ish% white people, although I’ve interviewed for a few and I hear they’re more common in different specialties.But of course one of the key goals of diversity initiatives is to frame the discourse so people don’t think this way. How often do you hear the Google diversity office talk about how proud they are to have a PoC as CE
protip: they don't favor white men -- Asians are vastly over represented in silicon valley. white men are actually underrepresented. your entire line of argumentation is off base.
I worked in finance, racial composition there is similar to tech these days. Hint: white is in the minority.
Well, HN has gone full leftist social justice! The article complains about how there are very few black and mestizo employees without ever wondering if there are differences in racial populations that would account for this. There is certainly no problem in finding Chinese engineers is there?
Honest question, Are people concern because there are not enough afro-americans/hispanics/etc in the software industry?
Do we know if Google or tech in general hires black women less than proportional to the US population?
Only two very special types of racial minorities are over-represented - Indians and east asians(specifically Chinese) are overrepresented relative to their US population.These groups are generally forgotten about or elided when talking about how Google or US tech has a diversity problem - there is just a diversity problem with blacks, latinos, and women, and my hunch is that it has nothing to do with tech being racist or sexist and has everything to do with either larger structural issues in
Odd he would pick specifically white guys. Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in tech overall (~55%) [3]. Meanwhile Asians are greatly over-represented - why isn't he excluding them, instead?[1] https://careers.twitter.com/en/tweep-life/diversity.html[2] <a href="https://diversity.fb.