throwcommonsns

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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
Why are you assuming that I haven't hired anyone before? And any reasonable observer would agree that you are falsely equivocating the literacy tests of yester century with the modern day objective hiring practices of FAANG companies.
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
What distinction does a throwaway account make on an otherwise-anonymous online forum? No need to take discussion offline. Within the next decade, I am in confident the pendulum will swing the other way, and the people who are able to vocal
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
> they would have been better of foisting it off on Michigan back when they had the chance This snide irrelevant addition makes it look like you are indeed picking on Ohio... My overall argument also includes other fine places such as Pi
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
Instead of dismissing the argument with a tawdry negated statement and a book suggestion, do you have some thoughts of your own with this matter, or at least some kind of summary?
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
Sure, and we are discussing the existence of racial discrimination in engineering hiring at top tech companies, not American history or South Asian culture. Asian immigrants on H1-B conducting coding tests as interviewers at FAANG did not i
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
No, coding tests are not the "literacy tests" you have described, and if they were, why would some minorities be performing even better than Caucasians on them? Coding tests examine the type of work actually required to be done on
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
I know people in the Bay Area who spent two or three hours a day commuting before moving back out to the mid-west again for remote work. This is a typical commute from SF to Mountain View, for example.
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
Even people with degrees are locked out of those high paying or leadership roles. Meanwhile, others can make it just fine by learning a trade. As a junior engineer, I was making the same amount as my degree less counterparts working in the
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
There's this unfortunately prevailing attitude that you aren't successful in America if you aren't living in New York or San Francisco. It's absolutely bonkers. There are many other great places in this country besides t
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
Why not? My point is that it should! What percentage of the US population is from South / East Asia? How does it compare to the representation of others? If it's similar or less, and it still somehow doesn't "count,&quot
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
While I certainly understand bad PR (a surprising number of people lack critical thinking skills), what is wrong or biased about hiring for coding positions based on merit-based performance on an objective coding test? Anybody regardless of
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by throwcommonsns 5y ago
This is a contrarian take that may get me downvoted and unfairly labeled, but I encourage critical thinking instead: I've struggled with people telling me that these FAANG companies have "diversity problems," as a person of c