What’s Howard University and what makes it reputable enough to mention here, presumably as some sort of appeal to authority? And this is from a Heritage Foundation event, which is clearly a right biased organization. Deloitte is mentioned in this article but let’s not forget, all of big tech also hire H1Bs and pay them the same as others for equal seniority. These companies don’t have different process or pay scales…
> It’s ridiculous to think the world’s best companies are just wasting money on “average grade labor”. Hah! By now, most people have worked with quite poor-to-mediocre colleague who have either: * grinded Leetcode and wormed through the pipeline to an overpaid gig at FAANG or a Big Four firm, or * came into their current position with years of FAANG/BigFour on their resume Everybody beyond theor first few starry eyed…
The overwhelming commonality is class. They get people from sophisticated backgrounds who have aspirations and status.
And I think that has value in that employees act in generally trustworthy, and orderly manner, and cultivate tastes and interests that appeal to other people with money.
The exceptional programmer genius with mild Asperger’s from unknown background also exist. It’s just really rare and they kind of don’t fit in.
There just isn’t a pipeline for finding and recruiting those types, and there is for upper middle class kids.