Silicon Valley is a young white boys club - BOX

UDRider

UDRider

FLCL?
From your links some companies are taking steps to address it. Also it's disingenuous to compare diversity within a company to diversity in overall U.S. labor force since the company requires certain skills. In case of tech companies STEM degree/experience. There are less under represented minorities with those degrees/skills then white/asian, so at some level it's also a problem of smaller candidate pool.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/09/technology/diversity_college_degrees/

Like any report, CRA's has its limitations; it covers only schools that grant Ph.Ds in computing. It also employs a narrower view of computer science than some other reports do. Still, it's considered a valuable snapshot of the technical talent emerging from America's universities.

According to CRA, the 2010 undergrad class was more than 66% white and nearly 15% Asian, a group which includes those of Indian descent. Hispanics accounted for 5.6% of the year's computer and information science undergrad degrees, and blacks obtained 4.2% of them. Both of those minorities were outnumbered by non-U.S. residents, who made up 7.6% of 2010's undergrad computer scientists from American universities.
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Now lets compare it to Google number. Not that far off from undergrad class destribution. If anything white are under represented, and Asian are over represented.
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NorCalAthlete

NorCalAthlete

O_o
I'm only 5'11" and half Pilipino/half German. NBA is racist because all these super tall black guys make millions more than me annually. No, I don't play basketball, nor have I ever taken the time to practice beyond the occasional game of "Horse", but still...racism!
 
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asdfghwy

Well-known member
Makes me feel better that I'm just a few semesters shy of my software engineering degree and I'm not white. If I do good and get a decent gig I'll be sure to hire you
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
Asians are GROSSLY over represented in Tech, which means Whites and Blacks are under represented. So what if a minority is over represented in the industry? :dunno

OP claims this is a Political Thread. Please move to Political toilet.
 
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panthera

Ride or Die
So much hate and crying. If you think you have what it takes why don't you make something people need, make a company out of it, and make bank? My guess is you cannot. That's why they do and people like you sit around crying about how it's racist. Has nothing to do with race. You think you are being held back while a dude of another race gets an upper hand because of it? Make something a ton of people need or want and you to could be in their position. And in the industry you are in and they are in is apples to oranges. Yeah if you make a bad railing and someone dies you will be liable. If the make bad software that needs a patch, no one dies. Apples to oranges man.
 
SFSV650

SFSV650

The Slowest Sprotbike™
Hiring at small startups has a 'culture fit' component to it; people want to hire their friends and want to work with people who are like them. It just so happens that the candidate who went to Stanford / Cal / MIT, rides a fixie, drinks pour over coffee, and has a ton of sweet gopro videos from shredding at Squaw or Jackson Hole is whiter-more Asian / maler / younger than a candidate with a very different background. Seems like it's not so much 'I don't like certain people' and more 'I know a guy from school / my last gig' and 'I really liked person x when we interviewed them'.

With the competition for engineering talent at larger organizations right now, I'd be surprised if qualified individuals were having a hard time getting hired. What happens inside may be a different story, but they should get through the door at least. :dunno
 
Blankpage

Blankpage

alien
Left out Asian restaurants staffed by only Asians where you can't get a burger.

Strip clubs full of mostly young white girls.

Racist culture and nobody seems to care.
 
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CoorsLight

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SFSV650 said:
Hiring at small startups has a 'culture fit' component to it; people want to hire their friends and want to work with people who are like them. It just so happens that the candidate who went to Stanford / Cal / MIT, rides a fixie, drinks pour over coffee, and has a ton of sweet gopro videos from shredding at Squaw or Jackson Hole is whiter-more Asian / maler / younger than a candidate with a very different background. Seems like it's not so much 'I don't like certain people' and more 'I know a guy from school / my last gig' and 'I really liked person x when we interviewed them'.

With the competition for engineering talent at larger organizations right now, I'd be surprised if qualified individuals were having a hard time getting hired. What happens inside may be a different story, but they should get through the door at least. :dunno
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I feel I'm more sensitive to perceiving racism than the average guy, but I'm not seeing it here.
 
radvas

radvas

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After 15+ years in the valley, I mostly agree, but at the same time, companies in the valley I've worked for are way better than companies I've worked for in other industries.

Since the rant is about appearance and money... can someone point to a highly compensated workforce that is highly diverse?

The talent side of the entertainment industry comes to mind. Anything else? Finance, banking, marketing, politics, law, and medicine all seem pretty homogenous to me.
 
MrIncredible

MrIncredible

Is fintastic
I just don't understand-if the overall goal is that race shouldn't matter at all.....

why do we spend all this time counting how many of what work where? Seems like we're just giving excuses to be butthurt.

I mean hell-I'm being a oppressed-there aren't enough Billionaires named Dave.
 
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