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The newsmedia loves to trash tech because they want to distract from their -- much worse -- diversity problem. How much diversity does Vice have? You can see a
by taway7 6y ago
The newsmedia loves to trash tech because they want to distract from their -- much worse -- diversity problem.
How much diversity does Vice have? You can see at:
https://company.vice.com/diversity-and-inclusion/ https://company.vice.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Look at management: 70% white, 5% black. For a company based in New York that isnt hiring PhDs, tell me how this happens?
How is it Vice cant hire more than 5% black managers (or 8% overall) when half their staff are fresh-out-of-college trust fund kids living in parents-paid Park Slope brownstones?
- ddevault 6y agoDid you register a new account just to issue whataboutisms?
- ForHackernews 6y agoHow is that "much worse"? Those numbers sound about the same as Google to me. To a large extent, SV tech firms and media companies are hiring from the same pool of upper-middle-class social climbers who went to elite universities.
- localbro42 6y agoThis does seem worse. Google is at the mercy of hiring from the pipeline of universities CS programs and graduate programs. Vice is hiring journalism, english, art history, classics majors and all random degress where there is absolutely no constraint. It is much, much easier to find a black entry level employee who has ANY undergrad degree (journalism) than it is to find a black entry level employee from Stanford CS (tech).
- ForHackernews 6y agoI strongly dispute that a Stanford CS degree is needed to be a junior dev who wires together protobufs, but that's Google's business not mine. At any rate, you were quoting stats for management roles, so undergraduate majors are irrelevant.