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> software devs are usually a certain demographic and they usually come from a place of privilege where they've never had to do the mental work that's involved
by commandlinefan 7y ago
> software devs are usually a certain demographic and they usually come from a place of privilege where they've never had to do the mental work that's involved in communicating effectively across diverse demographics.
This strikes me as a surprising assertion: most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants (or temporary guest workers) who are, by definition, navigating a culture very different than the one they grew up in.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants The only data I can find that speaks to that (from 2015) has far less than half foreign-born (39.2% of "software engineers", 27.4% of "computer programmers", etc.), and obviously not all of those are going to be "recent immigrants". https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/foreign-born-stem-workers-united-states https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/foreign-...
- cameronbrown 7y ago40% is a lot. Don't forget tech's exponential growth in jobs over the past few decades.
- ragona 7y agoI’d be curious to see that from FAANG specifically, since they drive so much international hiring.
- geofft 7y ago> most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants (or temporary guest workers) The only data I can find supporting this is that tech workers in Silicon Valley as a whole are majority foreign-born. But that includes everyone from Oracle to HP to Wipro, not just FAANG. (And I think the definition of Silicon Valley in this data is the traditional one, i.e., not including San Francisco.) A subset of those are recent immigrants.