What percent of those graduating with top technical degrees from top schools every year are non-affirmative action blacks?
there are virtually no blacks in applied sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computer science. i didn’t see them when i was in school in the 80’s and early 90’s... and i didn’t see them in industry when i was working in my field in the 90’s and early 00’s.
where there is real discrimination in these fields (especially in silicon valley) is age discrimination. if you’re mid-40’s and looking for engineering work out there, i hope you have a big pile of cash to live on while you wait for somebody (anybody) to respond to your resume. it’s a long wait.
there are silly notions of corporate culture with lots of the younger companies such as Google Inc. where experienced technical folks are treated as dinosaurs. even at age 45, you’re over the hill to many of them. they’d rather hire younger people who don’t yet have lives and are ok with working 60-70-80+ hours a week and living in their cubicles. or they’ll bring in chicoms or indians on H1B visas and basically have indentured servants. it’s a big problem and nobody can/will talk about it, but it’s real. once you’re into your 40’s, you are in the twilight of your career there (for certain fields at certain types of companies).
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/05/silicon-valley-age-discrimination-if-youve.html
http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-silicon-valley/
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/04/22/google-sued-again-for-age-discrimination/
it wasn’t so overt when i was there back in the 90’s, but i’m discovering that it’s an all too real problem even outside of the valley. i regret leaving my profession to start a small business. i regret spending 12 years on that only to have it ultimately fail due to the 7 years of misery Obama and the ‘RATS have inflicted on us with this economy. i’m seeing first hand that trying to find industry work again in my mid 40’s after taking a number of years off to try my hand at my own business, has made me not only unemployable, but not even able to get interviews.
Im thinking its a fairly low number...or we’d see evidence of those graduations in the “work force”.
Not enough Black Brain Surgeons...../s