In some companies it feels like they are firing the people that they could not easily get rid of otherwise - cutting of the bottom 25% of staff (based on low performance reviews or personal grudges).
Never really felt such thing being anything but odd ball case in Europe.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/success/layoffs-women-minorit...
https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-most-performance-evaluations-are...
Links to the research cited are in the articles, which provide a basic overview.
I am a gay black man.
No, it's not. Even if they were favored, one racial minority group being favored and others being disfavored doesn't balance out to “no racism”, it's even more racism than the latter being disfavored alone. And even if there is no evidence of racism in either direction affecting Asians, that doesn't negate racism affecting other groups.
At best it might be accurate of you only look at Asians.
What's the line here? At what point would tech not be racist? I really don't see your point here. There is a lot of evidence pointing to a really diverse, generally progressive industry with, if anything, a higher over representation (compared to the population) of multiple minority groups, different gender identities and a much more inclusivity conscious mindset than probably any other industry. We have no data that really points to the opposite conclusion. Again, at what point would you not say that those are all exceptions?
When it's demographically representative.
See how absurd your expectations are?
Please be a little more receptive to stuff like this. Racism and sexism are social ills that affect the majority of people. It's worth your time to having a passing understanding of the major concepts.
What about them? (Mostly, what both of those show is what the structure of the immigration system favors for nationalities where there aren't lots of people who are eligible for family-based immigration.)
> Transgenders?
Mostly reflects that people of higher socioeconomic status and in social environments concentrated on particular geographic locations are more likely to primed to accept.(or, viewed another way, less strongly conditioned to deny) transgender identity, and that both of those correlate with onramps to the tech field. Not that that is germane in any way to racism since gender identity isn't a race/ethnicity.
> Neurodivergents?
Also aren't a race/ethnicity and so aren't germane.
> Iranians?
See above notes about Indians and Arabs.
> Muslims?
Aren't a race, but also see above notes about Arabs and Iranians (which apply to lots of other places where Muslim immigrants come from.)
> At what point would tech not be racist?
I never said tech was racist, I said that “some races are overrepresented” isn't counterevidence to racism but, absent evidence for some other explanation for the overrepresentation, supporting evidence.
But, that aside, obviously, at the point where no one was systematically disadvantaged in the field on the basis of their race.
> There is a lot of evidence pointing to a really diverse, generally progressive industry
No, there's not. There's a lot of evidence of an industry drawing principally from a narrow domestic racial and class pool, that on non-racial/class grounds overrepresents groups overrepresented in that pool, and which in addition to that domestic pool overepresents immigrants to the US on non-family bases because being in the industry is itself highly advantageous to employment-based entry into the US.
>There is a lot of evidence pointing to a really diverse, generally progressive industry with, if anything, a higher over representation (compared to the population) of multiple minority groups, different gender identities and a much more inclusivity conscious mindset than probably any other industry.
That is not true. Retail, labor, non-tech administration are good examples to the contrary. The difference in pay and prestige is telling.
Work permit/visa holders will see an increase in workload (with a "work-more-or-eff-off" note, along with possibly a paycut too) Even pay negotiations on open offers, making it seem generous tha offer doesn't get cancelled.
Personally know a couple of friends who are in the US (with H1Bs awaitng transfer/extensions) facing this particular situation now.
Hiring is fucked. Tech hiring and ex\mployment more so.
Seems every employer treats employees as though the wage slaves are just so, or just above hamsters on wheels doing tricks.
Depressing, to say the least! :(
Work permit workers (H1, OPT and L1-B in increasing order) are the worst exploited and least privileged sub group of the entire tech workforce.
Be it an upcoming economy with a flood of opportunities like we saw for the past 7 years or a downturn, like the one we are witnessing now, visa workers will be exploited no matter what.
They are not cheaper than non visa-dependent hires, but they are abundant, easy to hire, easy to fire, easy to replace, incredibly easy to bully, pressurize and basically exploit. The only barrier to total exploitation is the manager's own conscience and values. And we all know, values are easily compromised when it can help the bottom line.
Working on a visa in USA is fucked.