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

Bipoc?

People who aren't whites or asians.

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 bosses and coworkers who have forced me out of otherwise technically interesting jobs, and have been unemployed since the pandemic started. After such a rocky start, I'm not sure that I will be able to secure another job in this field. (And sorry for the bitter tone here, but repeatedly getting my work evaluated on the basis of who I am, and how it must therefore be wrong, rather than on the content of the work itself gets very frustrating very quickly.)

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 pander to childish ideas of an "ideal workplace".

Please grow up.

The POC in BIPOC includes Asians, even if in the context of the tech industry East and South Asians aren't underrepresented groups.