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Given recent other posts about trying to get women and minorities in to tech the first thing I saw was the background marketing. Facebook is very good with data
by anonymouscow0 11y ago
Given recent other posts about trying to get women and minorities in to tech the first thing I saw was the background marketing. Facebook is very good with data and I wonder if they can quantify a positive result. It felt forced, I didn't even notice the text I just kept scrolling around looking at all the photos. I didn't see anyone that looked like me, it all felt too social and nothing at all like programming. Not one felt cubicle, nothing I've seen over years of coding.
How did it make you feel?
- awfullyjohn 11y agoI think that's the point.
- wetmore 11y agoConsidering I've spent my life seeing people that looked like me everywhere I look in the field of CS, I'm happy there's an effort to highlight the fact that CS also includes people who _don't_ look like me. I think the coding community has been effectively convincing people like you and me to pick up coding for years now. This website is a great initiative to convince the types of people we haven't been effectively reaching.
- crazyjosh 11y agoI agree with the forced feeling. Also odd to me, looking through the "Community & Events" there aren't any opportunities listed for a white males. Every organization and event listed is for women and minorities.
- wahnfrieden 11y agoWhite males are not already an underserved demographic. White men don't need yet another resource catered to them; tech is already doing a fantastic job of being full of them.