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Err, that's not what I meant. Quite the contrary tbh. I don't know about the rest of the population, but majority of employees in tech offices in Atlanta tend n
by darth_avocado 6y ago
Err, that's not what I meant. Quite the contrary tbh. I don't know about the rest of the population, but majority of employees in tech offices in Atlanta tend not to be African American, so I am not sure if you got my point at all.
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- systemvoltage 6y agoI see. You need to also consider the pool of black college graduates with qualifications for the job and what percentage of total pool they represent.
- yerwhat01010 6y ago> majority of employees in tech offices in Atlanta tend not to be African American Genuine question - how does this compare to other industries in the city? If AAs are underrepresented in tech in Atlanta, I imagine that part of this is caused by the same problems faced by AAs in other white-collar jobs. How much of it is a problem with tech specifically?
- runako 6y ago> how does this compare to other industries in the city? Tech firms underperform massively on this metric compared to other local industries (law, accounting, general Fortune 500s like Home Depot/Delta/UPS). That said, tech firms in Atlanta in general have more African Americans than do similar firms in e.g. Austin or SV. If I'm African American, Atlanta is a better place for me to get hired and promoted in tech than other tech hubs. My suspicion is that the fact that managers live in Atlanta normalizes for them the notion that African Americans can excel at white-collar work, so biases that exist everywhere are somewhat reduced here.