Silicon Valley’s Diversity Problem

The New York Times ^ | October 4, 2014

[artichokegrower]

After years of playing down the problem, technology companies like Google, Facebook and Apple now say they’re serious about improving the gender and ethnic diversity of their work forces and corporate boards. Recent data from those companies and others like them confirm what everyone has long known: Most of their employees are white and Asian men. Among technical employees, few are women, and even fewer are Latino or African-American.

[artichokegrower]

Many studies show that companies with gender and ethnic diversity tend to be more creative and more profitable

The New York Times giving companies advice on how to be more profitable? That's amusing.

[discostu]

It’s only a problem because Asians aren’t considered diverse. The nerd high school I went to keeps suffering from the same “problem”, any demographic whose income isn’t below average doesn’t count.

[martin_fierro]

[forgotten man]

Most of the liberals that I have met do not work or live near people of the Amish persuasion. They have had very little practical experience with “diversity.” That is why they are liberals.

[KoRn]

Sounds like a perfect excuse to BRING IN MORE H1B INDIANS!!!

(I wonder how much the Silly Valley firms paid the NYT to write this....)

[skepsel]

Is that real?

[Ghost of SVR4]

Many studies show that companies with gender and ethnic diversity tend to be more creative and more profitable

BS. All I have ever witnessed is it becomes an HR nightmare for whites and productivity goes DOWN as more politically correct BS gets pushed by HR drones.

[molson209]

Google, Facebook and Apple lower your standards big time and go out of business ,I could care less

[Myrddin]

What a surprise. Wildly successful companies built by white and asian men. Where are the wildly successful companies built by the complaining groups and why aren't they hiring the complainers? I smell a big pile of "gibs me dat" insisting on being rewarded without making a contribution.

[Jim Robinson]

I never did learn to use a VCR. And no way on the device that replaced it.

[Viennacon]

Yes, by all means destroy yourselves with diversity!

I don’t know why any Freeper would give a damn (unless you work for them and will then have to endure lectures and race hoodlum coworkers). I wouldn’t lose any sleep over these hyper liberal tech companies going bankrupt because they hired a truckload of incompetent feminists and some Chicago gangsters.

May the libtech shibboleth die

[SharpRightTurn]

“technology companies like Google, Facebook and Apple now say they’re serious about improving the gender and ethnic diversity of their work forces and corporate boards.”

Ah, Karma—these leftist weenies now get to find out that payback can be a &itch.

[denydenydeny]

Exactly how Asians acquired “white privilege” is never explained. Was there a secret meeting of the White Boy World Domination Society where a ruling was made? Help me out here, guys.

[9YearLurker]

It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of liberals—ha ha ha!

[Lion Den Dan]

Diversity must not be the question; profitability is.
The companies hire those who can make a profit for them.

[mjp]

few are women, and even fewer are Latino or African-American.

If they are qualified and want to get hired,they need to offer to work for lower wages.

[Myrddin]

I'm mildly amused right now. DoD has instituted IDIQ contracting practices. Everything to the lowest bidder. The work requires security clearance and years of experience. They can't hire the cheap H1B labor. People with a clearance that will work for what they are offering don't have the skills to do the work. People who have both have been kicked to the curb as "too expensive". My amusement comes from knowing they will miss their deadlines because nobody is getting any work done. My amusement is tempered with a vastly reduced income stream and almost no work after 30+ years doing 40 to 70 hour weeks. My damn resume runs 15 pages. I have to hack it down.

[Mr. K]

Time to sell the stock of these companies then

Every place I’ve worked where they wanted to improve their ‘diversity’ encountered numerous hires that were a royal pain in the ass

[umgud]

Maybe they should go to the engineering capitals of Africa or Mexico to recruit.

[NJRighty]

Excellent idea. These firms need stronger Diversity departments. Otherwise, how would employees know when it's Black History Month or Gay Pride Month? Who would tell the CEO whether the firm has enough Hispanic cross-dressers? I don't know how they ever made any money without this vital group.

Seriously, at my old firm, this group was the biggest waste of shareholder money. They contributed nothing.