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I worked for a big tech company for a while, and there were a moderate number of black engineers. Not tons, but not "almost none" either. Politics is harder t
by codefreeordie 4y ago
I worked for a big tech company for a while, and there were a moderate number of black engineers. Not tons, but not "almost none" either.
Politics is harder to judge. At that big tech company, it was not safe to be conservative, or indeed anything other than the extreme left. In my time there, I found maybe a dozen people who could reasonably be described as "conservative" -- but because being outed had such strong negative consequences, I'm sure there were tons more that I never detected.
None of the black engineers that I knew expressed explicitly conservative views, though one did mention quietly that they didn't like how uncomfortable everybody made it for him to express his Christian faith and the degree to which it was just a tacit assumption that everybody was atheist. Religious, though, isn't the same thing as conservative.
- worker_person 4y agoYep. It's getting really hard. Used to not matter much as people didn't talk politics or religion outside of small groups. I'm finding more and more that company meetings are open grounds to bash white males. Particularly any straight and / or Christian ones. The people that preach inclusiveness are the most bigoted people I know. Nothing like having co workers explain to me how reluctant they were to hire me based on race. Only that there were desperate for someone that could actually do the job. Decades spent trying to treat everyone fair and equal is now out the window and you're called a racist for doing so.