I used to work at a large prestigious tech company in Silicon Valley that makes very popular, widely-used software. And despite all the talk about inclusion an

I used to work at a large prestigious tech company in Silicon Valley that makes very popular, widely-used software. And despite all the talk about inclusion and fairness and how we need to hire a diverse bunch of people, each year, without fail interns--some even high school seniors--would show up on our team. So if I'd talk to these kids, who usually had names like "Bretton Pinkerton III" it would always turn out that they were the grandchild of a board member, or the kid of some venture captialist that the CEO or CFO was working with for another company that he was on the board of, etc. Never once did they get interns from say, East Palo Alto high school, or one of the community colleges, or College of San Mateo, or any of the schools that a poorer kid was more likely to be at. Never. The company, desipte their "diversity officer" was actually elitist as they come. (Oh, and these rich kid interns rarely had any interest in what they were doing either. If they were high school, it was just resume padding and then they were off to Harvard or Stanford.)