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Agree with everything you wrote, with one small caveat: the "white male" thing is really only a notable disadvantage with large companies. Every startup I've i

Agree with everything you wrote, with one small caveat: the "white male" thing is really only a notable disadvantage with large companies. Every startup I've interacted with has always prioritized hiring the person who is most capable of doing the job... the extra race/gender variable really only comes into play when there's a substantial HR layer involved. But to your other point, I think any perceived layoffs of white males at tech companies is just correlation with their overrepresentation in the software engineer population.

like_any_other 2y ago
> any perceived layoffs of white males at tech companies is just correlation with their overrepresentation in the software engineer population Whites are 41% of software engineers [1], but 57% of the US population [2], so they are under-, not over-, represented. [1] https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/software-engineer/demographics/ https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/software-engineer/dem... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
e40 2y ago
> But to your other point, I think any perceived layoffs of white males at tech companies is just correlation with their overrepresentation in the software engineer population. Agreed. A friend interviewed at Stripe in 2019 (ish, but before the pandemic) and he said every single person he saw at their SF office was 25-30 and white male. And it wasn't a small building and he was given a tour of a good bit of it.