Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers
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Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers
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#2I have noticed a similar trend at engineering campuses. So universities aren't recruiting black students?
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#3I have noticed a similar trend at engineering campuses. So universities aren't recruiting black students?
Why would people of color take engineering courses if there aren't any jobs for them afterwards?
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#4I'm not originally from America, so I seem to be missing something in articles like this. Why does no one talk about the "pipeline problem," that is, encouraging many more people from "minority" groups (black, women, and so on) to pursue coding from young age? (Edit: or encouraging these groups to enter the field at any age, such as through the community college system/Coursera/etc.)
It seems like examining the end of the funnel (and placing blame squarely on tech companies) is all too easy, and is much easier than addressing a root cause (not enough people of these groups studying CS to begin with.)
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#5Does the number of black workers that have the technical knowledge/experience account for more than 2-3% of the total pool of hirable workers? Or do black workers only account for 2-3% of tech employees because that's the number that knows how to code?
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#6Oh wow,
that chart titled ‘Little Has Changed’ with the X axis pushed out to 100%.
Looks like, if you squint hard enough, Facebook has at least tripled their number of black coders.
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#7Im gonna be the antagonist here and say, black people still aren't getting the degrees required for such work.
Now, ONLY if these tech companies would drop their requirements for university and college, they might see more applicants.
Tech companies should sponsor universities or even create their own. I can see some of the major companies saying "hey, we have this university, which you can attend for FREE only if you work for us for 6 years." Sign up?
Until either black people start taking more classes for tech work, OR tech companies start a university theirself, I don't see this happening anytime soon.
I work with 80% foreigners. 20% Americans. Its only because the Americans aren't going into Tech. Sad, but true.
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#8Being black is correlation not causation just like being a woman. This nonsense has to stop
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#9I have noticed a similar trend at engineering campuses. So universities aren't recruiting black students?
Why would people of color take engineering courses if there aren't any jobs for them afterwards?
BUT there are. I read a fact recently that stated something like the USA, has 40k NEW Tech jobs per year and we are only graduating 10k... There is plenty of work for everyone.