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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by iaseiadit on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:12PM (#42663230)
I can only speak from personal experience, but since about 4 years ago, every candidate I’ve been asked to interview for a software engineering position has been Black, Hispanic, South Asian or East Asian. Not a single white American.

Are there no white people studying CS anymore or looking for jobs? Did they all stop applying?

Again, it’s only from personal experience. I never asked any of my coworkers a “hey, do you ever interview white people?”, so it could be a coincidence that I was never matched with any. But I don’t think that’s the most likely explanation…

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by 0xbadcafebee on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:48PM (#42663378)
If you don't take them can you please forward me their resumes? It's extremely hard for me to find a candidate who isn't a 20s-30s white male named Chad.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by iaseiadit on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:17AM (#42663507)
My understanding is there’s a lot of outreach at HBCUs, so you may try that. Also H-1Bs.

The joke that white men are all named “Chad” is tired. You’ll notice I didn’t say everyone I interviewed was name DeShawn or whatever. Let’s move past that.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by muglug on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:55PM (#42663416)
That has not been my experience working for a big US tech company.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by iaseiadit on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:07AM (#42663470)
I also work for a big US tech company. If it’s not standard practice, I’m happy to hear it.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by cplanas on Saturday January 11, 2025 @08:08AM (#42665612)
Your experience is very different from mine. I rarely interviewed white candidates, but they were still more common than Hispanic and Black ones. The majority of the candidates were Asian.
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