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"Strikingly white"? Tech industry in California is probably the least white white collar industry in this country.
by xyzzyz 6y ago
"Strikingly white"? Tech industry in California is probably the least white white collar industry in this country.
- asdff 6y agoYou have to frame it relative to the pipeline to see how overt this bias is. In the CompSci major at UC berkely, for example, only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). That is striking to me. 1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-california-berkeley/academic-life/academic-majors/computer-information-sciences/computer-science/index.html#diversity https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo... 2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/ https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...
- Tycho 6y agoHow many programmers graduate from Berkeley each year and how many are employed in the FANGs in the Bay Area? How many Berkeley graduates are in the top 0.01% of available talent, given all the other people who want to work for FANG’s in the Bay Area?