The 90+ hour workweeks are already a big red flag to anyone with a spouse and/or children. It's hard to get along at work when everyone else is comfortable contributing in ways that you can't match directly. No one wants to be the odd man out in a high pressure work environment.
Edit: Fwiw I am also a white 20something male! I have always worked in relatively diverse environments and I have enjoyed it and would look for the same in my next employer.
In a 3 person office, who cares?
My current company had no diversity until I joined (the founder and employee #1 even went to the same school), but it never struck me as being worth thinking about. I'm honestly curious, what benefits do you get from a company with ethnic diversity?
Bringing a windows guy into a unix shop, or hiring a sales guy too early at a product development stage startup, or hiring a stupid or lazy person would be real diversity of a bad kind. Good diversity is bringing in people with domain expertise outside your core specialty, like having a font and calligraphy aficionado on your os team.
Superficial diversity is really overvalued.
Superficial diversity is really overvalued.
And very undervalued by people in the majority ...
I really haven't observed ethnicity or race as a primary factor in team dynamics. Even first language, assuming people have a minimal level of fluency, hasn't been a major factor; even with my minimal French, I've ended up hanging out with French video gamers and sci fi fans (all 3 of them at a big base; they spoke maybe 100 words of English) vs. a bunch of other Americans.
Volitional things like the kind of music you like, the job you do, your hobbies, etc. are really a much bigger factor, at least in my limited experience, than race or ethnicity.
The problem is, this was a short list.
It was in a list including "two degrees" (good) and "burned out twice in 6 months" (bad). Why do you take away that he said white is bad?
Why do you have an issue with skin colour being mentioned, but not age or gender or which college the degrees were from or how many hours they work or which specific tech they use? Why are you pushing so hard to make a great big racial controversy out it?
All three appear to be single white 20something males
It's lame when someone writes off a group of people based on such superficial characteristics.
My work week could be described the same way, but my breaks are for 2 or 3 hours each, and with no commute (which most people don't count in their work week), it's pretty comparable. If you enjoy what you do, those two late hours working uninterrupted are great.
- Six years at Stanford, two CS degrees
- Works up to 90 hours a week from home, has burned out multiple times in only six months with the company
- Founders work even more
- All three appear to be single white 20something males
- Job and tech (Clojure!) sound cool.
Edit: All that said he seems like a nice guy and I hope he gets rich off of Backtype. I love the service. I just can't quite project myself into the profile above.