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Black Coders and Silicon Valley Diversity


Black Coders and Silicon Valley Diversity | The Good Search

While 13% of the US population is Black, just 1% of the coders in Silicon Valley are Black. The Silicon Valley diversity disparity is real.

Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech

The DC area is a kind of mirror image to Silicon Valley when it comes to hiring African Americans. Overall, blacks make up 14.4% of the ...

So, are there really very few black coders or is the show being racist ...

It's reflective of the actual lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. There's a lot of structural factors and barriers that result in the ...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders? - Bloomberg News

Alston, who'd felt right at home at college, had a different experience. She could see Google wanted to foster a diverse culture, but, as the ...

Lena Alston Talks about Diversity in Silicon Valley - All Together

Instead of asking why Black programmers aren't coming to Silicon Valley, an area where Black people are already extremely underrepresented, I ...

Silicon Valley's Caste System: Geek Capital, Glass Walls, and ...

In this same year, Reveal's Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed the diversity reports of Silicon Valley technology firms. It found that ...

Girls In Tech dissolves as DEI support wanes in ... - Washington Post

Groups that promote diversity in tech are shutting their doors ... As Silicon Valley grappled with the absence of Black workers and ...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders? | Blog - AnuPartha

Silicon Valley with its own unique culture is somewhat of a black box to outsiders. The diversity issue will persist unless the MOOCs get smart ...

Silicon Valley, Seeking Diversity, Focuses on Blacks

The acute underrepresentation of blacks in the technology industry has given rise to a flurry of initiatives in Silicon Valley to improve ...

Bay Area tech diversity: White men dominate Silicon Valley

Ten large technology companies in Silicon Valley did not employ a single black woman in 2016. Three had no black employees at all. Six did not ...

Coding While Black: Experiences of Black Tech Professionals

Exclusion of Black Professionals Is a Big Problem in Tech. Tech—and Silicon Valley in particular—remains overwhelmingly white. According to research by The ...

Study Shows Black Coders Are More Likely to Get Job Offers–But for ...

A new report captures racial bias in hiring of engineers and suggests coders of all ethnicities should look for jobs outside Silicon Valley.

Black software engineers throughout history - Hack Reactor

As the Center for American Progress notes, Silicon Valley has long claimed that there's a shortage of qualified Black coders due to the lack of ...

Why Can't Silicon Valley Solve Its Diversity Problem?

Today, only about five per cent of employees in executive roles at tech companies are black and Latino. In addition, black and Latino tech ...

There Is a Supply of Diverse Workers in Tech, So Why Is Silicon ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Silicon Valley's tech workforce is 2.2 percent black and 4.7 percent ...

How Can We Fix Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem? - Essence

So just how bad is tech's diversity problem? According to 2015 stats made available by each company, only 2 percent of Facebook, Google, Yahoo ...

Black members of Congress push for more diversity in Silicon Valley ...

Rep. Barbara Lee: “Coding jobs will become the blue collar jobs of the future.” Cyrus Farivar – Oct 16, 2017 4: ...

6 Black Software Engineers Who Are Changing the World

Black people are starting to fill more roles in the field of software engineering, and famous Black computer programmers are gaining more ...

How to Fix Big Tech's Diversity Problem - Foreign Policy

After years of big promises and little change, Silicon Valley experienced a tiny breakthrough in raising diversity among its workforce, ...

Tech's Diversity Problem - More Than Meets the Eye

8 This failure of Silicon Valley business to generate middle-wage jobs, combined with the lack of access to high-wage tech jobs, leaves large numbers of Black ...