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by amachefe 1254 days ago
Saying people "looked quite international" is prejudicial

You don't get a pass because Elon and Twitter happens to be involved.

It is very unlikely if upto has of Twitter 2000+ employees are "H1B hostages", but I doubt that will serve your purpose

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Meh. I’ve worked in SF in another big tech corp. I know the demographics. I know many of those that are on H1Bs and as I said I’ve been myself. I also knew people at Twitter. It was less diverse than the big ones then, at least that was the image. The stereotype was more Equinox Soul Cycle white chic career women who live in the Marina, or something like that.

> I doubt that will serve your purpose

What purpose? I’m not coming from a culture war perspective in the slightest, but purely from his micro-/mismanagement of the company, and his treatment of employees, which I have learnt directly from his own words.

What crap. You are implying “international” == “bad”. Like poor workers, likely to commit crimes, poor communicators, etc.

The opposite is true. The “internationals” in that photo have a strong reputation for interest and hard work in engineering and the sciences.

> is prejudicial

It is not. He made no negative assumptions about the people in question and did no harm to them.