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by sokoloff 391 days ago
It’s presumably (from context) a company campus in the US that they’re taking about. I wouldn’t expect 3 of 8 legally authorized to work in the US people to be Chinese or Indian combined.

Other than a few international visitors, I’d expect the makeup to look like the domestic tech worker demographics rather than like the global population demographics.

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Also, anyone who has worked in these companies also know it’s much larger than 3 out of 8… comical to act like it’s only 3/8.
I estimate AWS engineering is maybe 80% Indian and another 10% Chinese. Less at higher levels though.
It always blows my mind that 75% of H1B admittance is Indian. Then you live in SFBA for 10 years and it's not really a surprise anymore.
Certain suburbs of Seattle (Redmond, bothell) are pretty much entirely Indian
I think most software companies hire from computer science graduates from US colleges. It’s likely that international students makes up a large percentage of these graduates.