Google drops engineering residency after protests over ‘inequities’

Post by MikeUt » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

Imnimo wrote: post #6

MikeUt wrote: post #3

> Critics have long argued that Google and its tech industry peers favor white, Asian and male workers Google was 51.7% white in 2020, down from 54.4% in 2019 *. The US is 61.5% white, meaning whites are under-represented at Google, and increasingly so. How can one then argue they are favored? Why do reporters not apply even the smallest degree of scrutiny to such claims? * https://diversity.google/annual-report/

Google hires many people who are not from the US to come work in the US, so I don't think the 61.5% is reflective of their hiring pool.

Post by artichokes » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #7

MikeUt wrote: post #3

> Critics have long argued that Google and its tech industry peers favor white, Asian and male workers Google was 51.7% white in 2020, down from 54.4% in 2019 *. The US is 61.5% white, meaning whites are under-represented at Google, and increasingly so. How can one then argue they are favored? Why do reporters not apply even the smallest degree of scrutiny to such claims? * https://diversity.google/annual-report/

What's "white" even mean? Descendants of north Europeans? Surface albedo of skin greater than 0.85 in the visible spectrum?

Post by akomtu » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:19 PM UTC

artichokes wrote: post #14

akomtu wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's "white" even mean? Descendants of north Europeans? Surface albedo of skin greater than 0.85 in the visible spectrum?

Descendants of Europeans. It's not ambiguous.

Post by badlucklottery » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

b20000 wrote: post #11

anonygler wrote: post #9

That's insane. The residency program is a way for people from unique backgrounds to enter into the software engineering field with less stringent interview requirements. SWE can pay upwards of $500-600k after 5-10 years of experience. This was an incredible opportunity and it's an absolute shame that internal protests killed it. Yes, you get less pay and a smaller stock refresh, but I know a few people who's careers…

“ way for people from unique backgrounds to enter into the software engineering field with less stringent interview requirements” - sounds like discrimination and should be illegal. meanwhile, people in their 40s are dealing with leetcode BS to get a reasonable position with that sort of compensation even though they have an extensive track record.

Post by dragonwriter » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:35 PM UTC

artichokes wrote: post #19

akomtu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What degree of purity is required to count as a European? Europeans can and do mix with non-europeans.

The 99% of white Americans for whom all ancestors were from Europe, are European.