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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Because it’s used to obfuscate the singular most important factor: wealth. Divide and conquer. Did you know you can identify as disabled while still feeling solidarity with other groups who are discriminated against? It doesn't fe
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by tchaffee 4y ago
What's your problem with folks calling out that society has traditionally and continues to discriminate using "factors including race, age, disability status, geography, economic background, and gender". What about this truth
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> what you should expect the average developer to know This sounds like unnecessary gatekeeping. By whose standards? Most of the web runs on JavaScript and PHP. With TypeScript the frontend is steadily moving towards more "type safe
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by tchaffee 5y ago
TurboTenant | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE - Contract Annual compensation range for this position, based on experience: $77,000 to $91,000 USD. We encourage you to apply if you are from an underrepresented community in tec
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by tchaffee 5y ago
If you are discriminating that early in the process and with such high numbers, and with no improvement, you can't be said to care deeply. That's called lip service. You said that they care deeply. You are doing a lot of psycholog
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by tchaffee 5y ago
When executive compensation has sky-rocketed over the past few decades it's disingenuous to say there is no place to make cuts to avoid raising prices.
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Here is a meta-analysis of "every available field experiment of hiring discrimination against African Americans or Latinos". Just a simple name change on a resume can result in discrimination. Lots of it. "On average, white a
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Clearly the person is not less resilient in the stories I gave. They made it to the finish line. They have already demonstrated years of resilience and dedication to a goal. Why would you expect that to change so suddenly? You've also
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> We are here to judge how someone can do the job. You missed the most important part of my point. Someone who crosses the finish line at the same time as someone else, but started from further back is almost always better at doing the j
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> The problem is that companies also want an objective hiring process Usually only at a very superficial level. Enough to comply with the law. And to be fair, some companies do have good intentions with a little extra effort and money pu
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> then hacking the process by learning to solve algorithm and data structure problems is acceptable Have you considered that underrepresented candidates might not have the free time outside of university, family, and job responsibilitie
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> I got very polite while asking him over to bail me out. > all the Grievance Studies majors So you're polite to those you find useful and insulting to people majoring in something you presumably disagree with? And assuming they
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Doing the rough math, Google employs about 80,000 engineers today. Generously assuming the other FAANGs employ as many engineers, you get about 400,000 engineers. There are about 26 million software engineers in the world. So that's 1.
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> as long as you pass the interviews. Aren't these are known to be extremely difficult interviews compared to most tech interviews? What percentage of candidates who apply get hired? I would imagine the numbers are quite low?
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by tchaffee 5y ago
How many CS jobs are even in the "the industry" though? Home Depot, Walmart, and Nestle are examples of massive companies that do not aspire to be Facebook or anything like it, but who hire lots of software engineers. Most compani
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> for something more senior you'd need to at least look at grad rates further back Sure. They have never dipped as low as 15% which is why I used it as very safe and generous number. Here's one source. https://www.ap
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Yep, that's why I used 15% because over the past 20 years it never dipped that low. Here's one source that shows 10 years ago it would have been about 18%. https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistic
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Both can be true. The number you really need is what percentage of black people with a CS degree end up actually getting a job offer. And highly publicized diversity efforts by tech giants does not necessarily reflect what the average compa
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by tchaffee 5y ago
If you're spending that much time doing all those things then maybe truly expert help is just expensive rather than too expensive. There is no doubt though that people do better work when supervised and knowing what questions to ask an
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by tchaffee 5y ago
What does your job description say? What are your company reviews on Glassdoor? What does the whisper network say about what it's like to work as a woman in tech at your company? Using a low estimate of 15% of CS degrees going to women
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by tchaffee 5y ago
How many FAANG companies are there? I guess five from the name. Does every black applicant with a CS degree get a job if they apply? It's a free pass? Your sample size of five elite companies can't be taken as a serious attempt to
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Is it a "narrative" that college isn't it worth it anymore or is that largely based in fact in the US? Especially when it comes to specific degrees that don't have a demand in the workplace. The cost of higher education
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by tchaffee 5y ago
My point was that the under-reporting is in much larger amounts than your claim that "You can get away with not reporting it if it's a few extra bucks from a jar on a counter." > Since some people cheat on their taxes, the
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by tchaffee 5y ago
That's a naive understanding of what's really happening at most restaurants. Cash tips are almost always significantly under-reported. It's nowhere near as low as "tip jar on the counter" amounts.
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Rand Paul is also a self-described libertarian and I would guess gets far more attention than you do. He was recently banned from YouTube for his videos about masks. And he still will not accept the scientific consensus about climate change
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> It can be modeled as shared property. It's already shared property by its very nature, so I'm not sure what the extra step of it being "modeled" as that does. But sure, let's do it. Can you explain how my air w
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by tchaffee 5y ago
I've talked to a few minarchists and I remember them being against almost all regulations and only supporting court systems, the military, and other institutions that could be corrupted if privately owned. This article seems to support
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> Being held accountable for your pollution of others’ property is a tenant of libertarianism The air we share and breath isn't "others' property" though is it? Like the parent commenter, I've also met and debate
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by tchaffee 5y ago
> When I say I don’t care what color a person is, I’m saying their skin color does not affect my decision. Their skin color most likely affected their life in profound ways. Why would you want to willingly ignore their actual life experi
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by tchaffee 5y ago
Where does it feel like it's no longer optional? I don't see your preferred pronouns here just for example. In all of my social circles the overwhelming opinion expressed by progressives is that not specifying your pronouns is as

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