"Now you are just sounding entitled. You aren't entitled to any of those things and there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley that are qualified and willing

"Now you are just sounding entitled. You aren't entitled to any of those things and there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley that are qualified and willing to take the job (which is why you had trouble)." If the company truly values diversity, it will remove barriers that disproportionately affect minority groups. The author is just pointing out that a company cannot claim to value diversity while simultaneously making it nearly impossible for a minority to work there. This also applies to the perks that companies offer. Consider a free cafeteria. How could a parent possibly take advantage of free dinner at work? All of these policies and perks that are targeted at a specific demographic make the workforce less diverse. "If you want to compete with them, you will need to move there." I'd like to know how someone with no resources could just move to Silicon Valley as if they were walking across the street. Silicon Valley is expensive. Saving up for a ticket and a few months' rent in Silicon Valley would take years for many people. Companies that are insensitive to this fact will end up with a workforce disproportionately containing children of wealthy, connected people. The issues the author faces are mostly due to statistical discrimination of various forms[1]. In particular, information about candidates is expensive and employers don't want to make bad hires. A candidate who comes from a group that has more variance in ability or a lower average ability is more expensive to evaluate because the company needs more information about the individual to narrow their risk to an acceptable level. If the company is only willing to expend a certain amount of effort evaluating candidates, those without the information boost of coming from a well-known low-risk group will be rejected as too risky. Not that it's a company's moral duty to shoulder the costs of making hiring decisions solely on the basis of ability, but if a company claims to value diversity it is lying unless it shoulders at least some of those costs. [1] See "Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey" section 2.2.1 at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/publication/moro/final.pdf http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/publication/moro/final.pdf