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> Black people make up 13% of the US population, we are naturally in the minority. But in the tech workforce, we are missing. Among the top eight largest tech c
by anonytrary 6y ago
> Black people make up 13% of the US population, we are naturally in the minority. But in the tech workforce, we are missing. Among the top eight largest tech companies in the land, black people account for only 3.1% of the workforce.
I think the right metric to look at is the "percentage of black people who have the necessary degrees or equivalent qualifications". You can't blame companies for the problem if the disproportionality is introduced in the education funnel. In that case, the question that needs to be asked is "why are black people less likely to go into STEM"?
- UncleMeat 6y agoDo you know what school graduates more black cs graduates than any other. Georgia tech. How many major tech companies have serious hubs in Atlanta? Some of them, but certainly not all. People don’t like to move. A nontrivial amount of the pipeline problem can be addressed by opening offices in the southeast.
- anonytrary 6y agoIf the best talent or opportunity isn't in the southeast, then companies won't go there, so I think it's not as simple as "just open your office in the southeast". Companies are distributed closer to their relevant hubs. Like you said, people don't want to move, especially if it means taking loss in efficacy.
- UncleMeat 6y agoThen people need to give up on this "its a pipeline problem" argument, like tech companies have no capability of acquiring different pipelines.
- anonytrary 6y agoIt's not about the capability, it's about the switching cost. A business's cash flow is like their blood flow; they do things that bankrupt them, they die. You can't expect businesses to go bankrupt to perform a contrived move. There is an energy cost for every change.