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What is weird to me as a Chinese-American is that I've been in Silicon Valley for over 10 years, and somehow managed to avoid all the other Asians. When I work
by chubot 14y ago
What is weird to me as a Chinese-American is that I've been in Silicon Valley for over 10 years, and somehow managed to avoid all the other Asians.
When I worked at EA I was the only Asian on my team. Everyone was white American or European (no South Asians either). And at Google I spent 5 years on my first 2 teams, everybody was white, except for one Chinese guy on the first team and one Korean guy on the second (neither were Asian-American). This feels like roughly a 95/5 ratio, not 50/50. On my current team there are more Asians from abroad, but few Asian-Americans.
Possibly I think there are more Asians in San Jose in tech (the article is from a San Jose paper) than Asians in SF in tech (although of course there are many Asians in SF).
Also I will generalize blatantly and say that Asians don't work on games, open source, and systems programming as much.