We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by AdrianB1 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:49PM (#21698195)

As a tall while Caucasian I think you need you have a problem with the environment, not a racial one. I live in Eastern Europe and we don't really know what racism is because we have no history of problems in the past; I had direct reports that were Latino and Latina, Europeans (Caucasians), black (African): they were friends more than subordinates. In Bucharest my South African colleague, the Brazilian one and the Chinese lady are cool and they attract attention in a positive way, they have absolutely no issues living here. I think the problem is the US with the long history of treating poorly other races, not with your race.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by lmeyerov on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:01PM (#21698626)

Unfortunately, Wikipedia finds your experience to not be universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Europe . I hope this continues to change, however!

More relevantly, it is useful to understand the VC process as selling to a mix of individuals. The horrible ones stink and need to be written off. It sucks, but that's life. (You probably don't want to work with them anyway: should you really trust them with your life's work through all the closed door activities that happen?) At the same time, there is a strong wave of individuals and firms that view non-traditional backgrounds as a valuable leading indicator for key difficult aspects of company building. Fundraising is a form of sales. You only really need one yes, so having access to otherwise closed off sources of capital is an amazing advantage.

It's a weird world and something I care about, so I'm genuine in my offer to folks here.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by int_19h on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:10PM (#21699017)

I'm from Eastern Europe, and we absolutely know what racism is.

Just look at Roma.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by jimbokun on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:35PM (#21698483)

> I live in Eastern Europe and we don't really know what racism is because we have no history of problems in the past;

Then why do I read stories like this about black soccer players being racially abused?

https://www.euronews.com/2019/11/01/racism-at-the-heart-of-b...

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