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What universe are you living in? How old are you? I'm 27, white, in tech. I'm not a genius, I didn't go to an elite school. I've always had tech opportunities that would have given me a comfortable middle class life. So did most of the other white boys that graduated with me. Competition from Indians and Chinese in STEM is real, but it's not so all consuming white tech bros are being """genocided""".
I have had tech opportunities where I am among a 10% white minority. I had to work harder for less opportunity only to be surrounded by Indians. To me, that is unacceptable.
"I have to work in social conditions I find personally uncomfortable and displeasing. This is clearly the same as genocide!"
Bruh. Please.
Big tech should be at least two thirds white people but instead it's maybe 10%. That looks like some kind of severe racial discrimination and crowding out to me.
I can believe underrepresentation (although some Asian overrepresentation in tech feels, frankly, pretty organic) but I don’t for a second believe that Big Tech is only 10% white. That seems like quite an exaggeration.
Although, my two personal friends who work in the FAANG world are an Indian guy (to be fair, he’s a citizen and a very patriotic rah-rah-USA kind of person) and a black guy, so hey, what do I know. Are there real stats on this out there?
Big Tech is probably about half foreign-born (overwhelmingly Chinese and Indian), with the other half split between white and Asian-Americans. Whites are probably a plurality if you count East and South Asians separately, but each company is different e.g. Microsoft has a reputation of being more Indian and Meta of being more Chinese, and individual teams or departments could have any possible ratio based on idiosyncratic hiring practices.
There's a relatively small but significant set of whites in the foreign-born tech set.
Google's 2024 diversity report has them at about 45% white and 46% Asian in the Americas. Hiring is about 40% white and 43% Asian; tech hiring is 48% Asian and 37% white. Still a lot more than 10% white.
Down from 65% white to 45% white in 10 years, please that white category is probably half non-legacy-American. And the company I was talking about was not google, so it's apples to oranges with an incredible report (Google is completely untrustworthy and an evil company).
Why would Google report a higher fraction of white employees than they actually have? If anything, the incentives run in the opposite direction, and they would be motivated to classify every possible edge case/mixed individual/white Hispanic as a person of color to hit their diversity targets.
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