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by statics 3630 days ago
A few very bad assumptions there: 1) not all employees have CS degrees from the US, many are foreign 2) the graduation rate by "race" or "gender" in 2015 is not what is was in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975, and the any industry has many people who graduated a long time ago. Comparing current year demographics to the industry as a whole seems really off. 3) Due to historical economic status which is correlated with race, more of those that started off less well off tend to gravitate towards more stable companies.

None of these things mean that negative racial discrimination or stereotyping don't exist, just that we shouldn't expect numbers for a particular industry population to match the aggregate stats on who graduated last year.