[joyj2nd]

I disagree. Most companies are actually trying to INCREASE diversity, be it based on skin colour or gender. So it may actually be much EASIER to get accepted in this companies if you are black.

I know in some STEM fields (not all in STEM is CS), you have MUCH MUCH higher chances to land a good job at a big company if you are female. But being female in medicine or law buys you nothing since there is no imbalance.

[DeonPenny]

Yeh you'd think that but if the interviewer doesn't like you doesn't even matter. When I graduated a few years ago I made a spreadsheet to see why. The strongest predictor wasn't how well I think I did out of 10, or hours of prep I did before hand. There were certain people regardless of what I need gave me 100% rejection. I'm not saying it was prejudice, but it was a very clear pattern.

[joyj2nd]

Dude, nobody is worse in getting a job than me. But let me tell you a few things:

1. Mostly it is how much people like you and how much they share with you.

2. 1st class people hire 1st class people, 2nd class people hire 3rd class people

3. Being rejected tells nothing about you. The guy they hired tells a lot about the company.

[CyanLite2]

Of course everybody says they're TRYING to increase diversity, but none have actually DONE it. But not because there's a lack of qualified diverse candidates applying there. If they wanted to solve the problem, they could, but it's not a priority for them. Facebook grew their overall employee base by nearly 400% over the past 6 years, but their percentage of black employees only grew by 0.8%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/six-years-into-diversity-rep...

[imtringued]

Growing from 3% to 3.8% is 26% growth over 5 years or roughly 5% per year. That's incredibly far away from "none have actually DONE it". If you could solve systemic problems in just 5 years then why hasn't anyone done it over the last 200 years?

By the way the facebook data is only from 2014 to 2019. The headline is misleading when you only look at facebook.