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As far as I can tell White Americans are a super-minority in Silicon Valley hiring pipelines. Of the 100 or so interviews I've done in the past few years I'd sa
by User23 6y ago
As far as I can tell White Americans are a super-minority in Silicon Valley hiring pipelines. Of the 100 or so interviews I've done in the past few years I'd say about 2% were White American, 5% were of East Asian origin, and the rest of South Asian origin. Fact is if Silicon Valley firms actually want to be diverse, that is to say accurately represent the demographics of the USA, they need to hire more White Americans, not fewer.
- saagarjha 6y agoYou're saying that you interviewed 100 people and 93 of them where South Asian? That seems insane unless you're actively hiring talent from India.
- commandlinefan 6y agoI've observed similar demographics in North Texas, consistently over a 20-year period.
- mcguire 6y agoFor meat processing plants?
- actuator 6y agoYeah, this doesn't seem believable at all. East and South Asians are definitely overrepresented (compared to US population) in tech but not by these numbers. Luckily some big companies do publish diversity reports which will easily give information about the actual stats. FB's diversity report. https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/ https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/ White Americans make up 37% in tech, 63% in leadership positions in Facebook. GitHub is 70% White and 15% Asian. https://github.com/about/diversity/report https://github.com/about/diversity/report Apple is 50% White and 23% Asian. https://www.apple.com/diversity/ https://www.apple.com/diversity/
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- User23 6y agoYes, it's pretty obvious that management at this company and org is actively and preferentially hiring talent from India based on my lived experience. And note there wasn't a single Black or Hispanic American candidate in the pipeline that I got to screen. Not one.
- dpeck 6y ago2%? There is no way unless you were specifically setup for that by advertising exceptionally low pay and willingness to sponsor visas, and even then that seems off by 10x or more from my experience.
- novok 6y agoCertain companies tend to create ethnic clusters, and this person is probably at one of them. Ex: One 50-300 person place I worked at had a much higher rate of chinese & jewish people than other typical tech companies for example. It started because the first staff members were of those groups, and then they reference more people from those groups and it creates a network effect. I was a recruiter hire so I wasn't part of the trend. Companies only start reverting to the mean once they get so big that the reference network effect is too slow. If the ethnic clusters have bad english, you then start getting language and cultural comfort effects and people not of the ethnic group have a much harder time getting hired.
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