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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by max_velikanski on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:42PM (#22408754)
Indians occupy most of the management positions in FAANG, and even though developers from other races/groups do very well during the interview process(I participated in), they barely pass, because they are not from the chosen race. I would be highly surprised if Management in FAANG is not at least 80% of Indians, so please don't even bother applying here (yep, worked for AA and now G).
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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by corporateslave5 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:41AM (#22411936)
Yeah I’m always astounded by this. It’s literally never brought up, but it’s everywhere in the industry.
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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by president on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:51PM (#22408850)
This is quite obvious in Silicon Valley but nobody talks about it because they are then called “racist”.
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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by Bhilai on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:13PM (#22409433)
Based on the diversity numbers reported by Google[[1] in 2018, 59.7% of leaders hired in 2018 were White. This number was 63% in 2017, 65% in 2016, 69% in 2015 and 68% in 2014 (I only found numbers only from last 5 years)

Overall workforce representation numbers tell us that Google's leadership team in 2019 is 66% White so I am not sure if what you are claiming is right.

[1]: https://diversity.google/annual-report/

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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by president on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:30PM (#22410465)
That link you posted shows the percentage change of certain groups in tech hires, but conveniently leaves out the overall percentage breakdown for all tech hires, which is the real issue. I invite you to walk into the engineering department of any major tech firm in SV and tell me it’s not majority Indian engineers.

What would be really helpful is a study that shows the breakdown of Google engineers in different locales. So far, I haven’t seen any of these come out of these diversity reports that SV companies really love to show off these days.

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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by spapin on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:57PM (#22408900)
You probably didn't intend to sound so racist. You participated in the process and you discriminated based on race? You aren't Indian, yet you still got hired?

What's your point?

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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by corporateslave5 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:29AM (#22412595)
It’s not racist just pointing it out
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