Comment by BurningFrog
1 year ago
Certainly not in my Silicon Valley teams.
I'd say maybe 40% white (half of which are immigrants) and 80% male.
More diverse than any leftist activist group I've seen.
1 year ago
Certainly not in my Silicon Valley teams.
I'd say maybe 40% white (half of which are immigrants) and 80% male.
More diverse than any leftist activist group I've seen.
Interesting tidbit, but was the political snark at the end really necessary?
Not much is necessary, but it felt on topic because it's arguing against leftist fantasies that SW engineers are all straight white males.
One thing's for sure though, nobody in tech really cares about your race or sexual orientation, they care about your results.
Sure there might be some bias against/for some groups, but everyone knows there's genuses in India and white caucasian flops so they give everyone equal opportunity.
Only exception is for like legal reasons it might be easier to hire some French random low-tier programming over a Russian/Irani genius but that's due to sanctions, but if those same Russian/Irani guys held a western european passport they would gladly just hire them outright.
Source: Venezuelan (sanctions) who is also a holder of a European passport (all sorts of doors just open just because I hold this 2nd nationality out of sheer luck, and you know Venezuelans aren't extremist either).
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how many leftist activist groups have you seen?