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A really awesome article, however I found this part around the end upsetting: > The other angle is if I or another POC wants to be an engineer, will I have to
by throwaway38466 10y ago
A really awesome article, however I found this part around the end upsetting:
> The other angle is if I or another POC wants to be an engineer, will I have to worry about "culture fit" at different tech companies? I figure that's a term that's used to just keep people out at this point. "Oh, you're not a culture fit," where the culture-fit definition is "bearded white guy that wears flannel shirts," is a problem.
The political correctness using the word POC (Person Of Color I assume) is annoying. I work in a big tech company, and there's a lot of Asians and Indians (1st generation or not), definetely more than the national average. Are they not "POC"? Around me, white people are a minority. And in those white people, a lot of them are European. The culture fit is definetely not "bearded white guy that wears flannel shirts".
What is not represented is Latino, Black. It surely is a problem, but propagating the "bearded white guy that wears flannel shirts" is definitely not going to help.
- saurik 10y ago> I work in a big tech company... This "culture fit" diversity issue is normally describing an issue endemic to the numerous smaller tech companies; if nothing else, big tech companies often have HR departments who have dealing with these kinds of problems as one of their goals, but they also don't have the same default expectation of "these people are my world so I need to not just work well together aoth them but also would have them as my best friends".
- angrow 10y agoShe isn't talking about your company, so there's no need to leap to its defense.