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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by klipklop on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:29PM (#22394294)
Has a company like Google ever released data proving this? Latino's make up a fairly large number of the people that live in the bay area (23.5% [1]) yet there are like what 3.6%[2] of those people working at google. Seems like a pretty big gap.

It would be interesting to see what their application/success ratio demographics are like.

1. http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm 2. https://www.wired.com/story/googles-employee-diversity-numbe...

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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by apta on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:28PM (#22394514)
> Latino's make up a fairly large number of the people that live in the bay area

How many of them hold relevant degrees for job openings at Google?

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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by xenihn on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:30AM (#22395315)
I know multiple people who don't have a degree at all and have full-time SWE positions at FAANGs. One is even an engineering manager. This isn't the 2000s.

There's even a sourced 2018 article about current hiring practices trending away from degree requirements for you to peruse:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/15-companies-that-no-longer-...

It's not about the degrees (relevant or otherwise).

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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by smegma2 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:11PM (#22394452)
Bay area residents probably make up a small portion of Google's applicants. It would be more interesting to hear what percentage of their applicants are Hispanic.

Of course the most important thing is: out of minority applicants who are qualified, what percent are hired? Because we may expect a smaller proportion to be qualified due to systematic barriers that they face. Google is not necessarily in a position to fix those.

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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by stickfigure on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:35PM (#22394934)
You can effectively look this information up yourself by checking on the demographics of CS graduates.

I'm willing to bet that Google's demographics hew pretty closely to CS graduate demographics. You need to look farther upstream.

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