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by quizotic 3415 days ago
Just so disturbing. We pride ourselves in tech on being a meritocracy. But it's not really true, even now. I'm a starchy-assed white guy, who was born in Asia and married a dark-skinned woman, so you'd think maybe I was different. But when I ran engineering organizations 25 years ago, I interviewed and hired precisely 0 African Americans and 0 Hispanics. I promoted two white women, and two white men, and nobody I recall of Asian, Indian or Middle-Eastern background.

But articles like this help. Keep pounding in the message, and eventually people will change ... or die off.