Tech Prep by Facebook

Re:Tech Prep by Facebook by anonymouscow0 on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:06AM (#10430355)

Given recent other posts about trying to get women and minorities in to tech the first thing I saw was the background marketing. Facebook is very good with data and I wonder if they can quantify a positive result. It felt forced, I didn't even notice the text I just kept scrolling around looking at all the photos. I didn't see anyone that looked like me, it all felt too social and nothing at all like programming. Not one felt cubicle, nothing I've seen over years of coding.

How did it make you feel?

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Re:Tech Prep by Facebook by wetmore on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:38AM (#10430558)

Considering I've spent my life seeing people that looked like me everywhere I look in the field of CS, I'm happy there's an effort to highlight the fact that CS also includes people who _don't_ look like me.

I think the coding community has been effectively convincing people like you and me to pick up coding for years now. This website is a great initiative to convince the types of people we haven't been effectively reaching.

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Re:Tech Prep by Facebook by crazyjosh on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:41AM (#10430569)

I agree with the forced feeling. Also odd to me, looking through the "Community & Events" there aren't any opportunities listed for a white males. Every organization and event listed is for women and minorities.

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Re:Tech Prep by Facebook by wahnfrieden on Thursday October 22, 2015 @03:59AM (#10430946)

White males are not already an underserved demographic. White men don't need yet another resource catered to them; tech is already doing a fantastic job of being full of them.

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Re:Tech Prep by Facebook by awfullyjohn on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:50AM (#10430454)

I think that's the point.

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