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It's very true that if you aren't based in SV but visit it regularly this is something that jars every damn time. Doing something positive about it is great. T
by fidotron 13y ago
It's very true that if you aren't based in SV but visit it regularly this is something that jars every damn time. Doing something positive about it is great.
The other side is the rest of us should see it as an opportunity, given that the effective monoculture in SV gives them a sort of blindness to certain product areas.
- fchollet 13y agoI never thought of SV as a monoculture, when it comes to nationality and race (it does suffer from a bad case of groupthink though...) In SV you will find engineers, designers and managers from all over the world --Russia, China, Europe, etc., and when it comes to race you will find very large numbers of highly successful Asians and Indians. Likely more so than in other US industry.
- saltyknuckles 13y agoWhat you just wrote didn't include black or hispanics. So now you have Black Girls Code.
- fidotron 13y agoPrecisely. It's also struck me that the vast majority of the female engineers seem to work at a tiny handful of companies. For example, Google is quite diverse, the attendees at I/O were not.