u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah tough subject because Asians (from all parts) are minorities in the USA and face many challenges other minorities face day to day, but in the "big tech" industry they are far over-represented compared to the population.
Big tech's view is that their employee base should have diverse views representing all of their users - which is the entire world for many of them - and hence having broader representation is important. And this is why there is more emphasis on attracting groups that are "historically underrepresented" in tech.
One SUPER interesting thing is that many bootcamps are NOT diverse broadly speaking. A 12 week 12 hour a day program is not very accessible to people with multiple jobs, or primary caregivers, or who don't have savings to live off of, and they hence attract a narrow set of people.
For example, BloomTech has 17% of students who identify as a woman compared to the 25% who identify as a woman at Meta/Facebook.
[https://www.bloomtech.com/reports/diversity-report](https://www.bloomtech.com/reports/diversity-report)
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Some example reports:
[https://about.google/belonging/diversity-annual-report/2022/](https://about.google/belonging/diversity-annual-report/2022/)
[https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/metas-diversity-report-2022/](https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/metas-diversity-report-2022/)