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>Imagine this: >You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some
by bsanr 7y ago
>Imagine this:
>You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some of the brightest engineers in the world.
>Soon after, you’re thrust into management. Now, you’re leading teams of people who are 10 or 20 years older than you, working on one of the fastest growing internet companies of the last decade.
I can't bring myself to. It's too sweet a daydream, a fantasy that not a soul on this planet would have deigned to make reality for a black boy like myself, credentials be damned.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- cuntkiller 7y agoif you think that's a race thing you're mistaken.
- theflyinghorse 7y agoHis story is extremely similar to my second boss - a Nigerian man who was my CTO.
- chipuni 7y agoIt happens. Where I work, the manager of programmers is from Nigeria.
- jmnicolas 7y ago> “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.” Henry Ford
- loco5niner 7y agoIt's a mistake to assume opportunity is limited by race in this field and credentials aren't as useful as they used to be.