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There's only one person on my immediate team who is under thirty. Much of the company's engineering leadership is on the "ex-dec" mailing list. Let's just say
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
There's only one person on my immediate team who is under thirty. Much of the company's engineering leadership is on the "ex-dec" mailing list. Let's just say that there are no 22-year-old engineers on ex-dec.
- edwardhotchkiss 12y agoBased on these statements, would that mean that there is no cause for concern; while female engineers over-represent the percentage of CS majors?
- adventured 12y agoWhat does CS majors have to do with it? Engineers capable of working at Google != majoring in computer science. Computer science degrees are handed out like cracker jack prizes these days. Men graduate college at a lower rate than women, graduate high school at a lower rate, and have a lower literacy rate. What does that have to do with the specific pool of talent from which an uber engineering company like Google would pull from?
- mbrubeck 12y agoThat seems to be a non-sequitur, but in any case: 17% of "tech" employees at Google are women (worldwide): http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech 18% of CS degrees are earned by women (in the US): http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp so women are not in in fact over-represented among Google engineers, at least by that measure.
- cheapsteak 12y agoCurious about the "ex-dec" mailing list. Link? Google isn't of much help (top result is this thread)
- Yunk 12y agoSince the discussion is age, I would say digital equipment corporation which would put everyone at 40+.
- Shebanator 12y agoyep, its ex employees of DEC. A lot of really good people came from the Palo Alto-based DEC WRL in particular.