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My experience has been that even beyond caste, huge tech companies get these weird race/ethnicity based fiefdoms embedded within them. The company might be “improving diversity” but there are whole teams from director down that are 90% Indian immigrants and the Indian team members are promoted from within, same for East Asian, haven’t seen Slavic type yet but probably out there. Had some strange experiences where 7/8 coworkers were Chinese and routinely spent the entire day talking together in Chinese and excluding me from like regular work convos high impact projects and general progress early in my career.

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> My experience has been that even beyond caste, huge tech companies get these weird race/ethnicity based fiefdoms embedded within them.

I've had the same experience. It's very weird when you realize you've been hired into such an ethnic enclave in which you aren't that ethnicity, and then learning that your boss's boss is looking for a way to trade you to another team without ever meeting you, mere days after you joined. Thankfully that trade went through and I ended up on a less racist team..

>...and routinely spent the entire day talking together in Chinese and excluding me from like regular work convos high impact projects and general progress early in my career.

Outside the US, I've seen companies with a diverse work force implement "english only" policies in the office.

Those polices are flagrantly ignored.

That's the policy where I am, for any work-related conversations. Private conversations obviously are different.

Maybe that's considered "racist" in the US or something.

It’s not that it’s racist to bring it up, it’s that if your an IC eng experiencing this your manager, skip level and 2x skip are likely in on the whole race based fiefdom thing and the next person to talk to is a senior director/VP who is a very important person that you rarely see and never talk with.

Take it for whatever it’s worth but I have an Indian-American friend who worked at Google and said the Indian immigrant managers there form a clique that discriminates against US-born Indian-Americans as well.

"This is what diversity looks like." and why many oppose it.

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