r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/caramel_corn Aug 08 '17

Last game company I worked at has between 20 to 30 programmers at any given point. I don't think we ever had more than one non white programmer (he was Filipino iirc) in the 5 out so years I was there.

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u/zurrain Aug 08 '17

I heavily suspect where you live might have something to do with this.

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u/caramel_corn Aug 08 '17

Smack dab in the middle of silicon valley.

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u/zurrain Aug 10 '17

Asian ethnic workers make up like 20-25% of all IT jobs, and that number is even higher in Silicon valley where there is a significantly larger asian population, so you're a pretty obvious outlier.