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Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

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Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

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This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from.

If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on Twitter in discussing such things, if you can find it.

Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

#12

A job offer. Seriously. More verbosely, if no one's willing to hire BIPOC or women in the first place, then how can one ever expect to find experienced BIPOC/women devs in the candidate pool? And while that experience Catch-22 is generalizable to White/male/Asian devs, the lack of diversity in tech spaces speaks for itself in terms of implicit hiring bias. I, myself, have had spotty employment, absurdly hostile bosse…

Are you sure the lack of diversity is all hiring bias? I also noticed a lack of diversity in undergrad and in some demographics for graduate school. It would make sense that if the requisite degree programs are lacking the diversity, then the candidate pool and workforce will be lacking too.

Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

#13

This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…

You sound bitter.

Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

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I feel like this kind of approach to engineering opportunities is why people might be averse to hiring you (if that's even the case)... Statements like this are akin' to claims that "networking is hard for me because " when in reality it's pretty damn hard for everyone. If you make it clear this is your M.O. during an interview expect to be alienated and ignored. We're here to write software and build cool stuff, not…

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Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

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A job offer. Seriously. More verbosely, if no one's willing to hire BIPOC or women in the first place, then how can one ever expect to find experienced BIPOC/women devs in the candidate pool? And while that experience Catch-22 is generalizable to White/male/Asian devs, the lack of diversity in tech spaces speaks for itself in terms of implicit hiring bias. I, myself, have had spotty employment, absurdly hostile bosse…

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Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

#16

This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…

I appreciate the thoughtful and honest response. I've seen some great discussion on Twitter. Hopefully HN picks up on some of these discussions and can become a more welcoming space for dialogue from those with different backgrounds and perspectives

Re: Ask HN: What do BIPOC and/or non-male employees look for at potential employers

#17

This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…

I appreciate the thoughtful and honest response. I've seen some great discussion on Twitter. Hopefully HN picks up on some of these discussions and can become a more welcoming space for dialogue from those with different backgrounds and perspectives

HN has its good points. This is just not the best place to try to get this kind of information, for a variety of reasons.

I wasn't actually trying to be negative. Just informative.

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