Certainly not in my Silicon Valley teams.
I'd say maybe 40% white (half of which are immigrants) and 80% male.
More diverse than any leftist activist group I've seen.
I'd say maybe 40% white (half of which are immigrants) and 80% male.
More diverse than any leftist activist group I've seen.
Sure there might be some bias against/for some groups, but everyone knows there's genuses in India and white caucasian flops so they give everyone equal opportunity.
Only exception is for like legal reasons it might be easier to hire some French random low-tier programming over a Russian/Irani genius but that's due to sanctions, but if those same Russian/Irani guys held a western european passport they would gladly just hire them outright.
Source: Venezuelan (sanctions) who is also a holder of a European passport (all sorts of doors just open just because I hold this 2nd nationality out of sheer luck, and you know Venezuelans aren't extremist either).
If we care about the results, and the model showed an Asian and Black Nazi, then we know it is not really about the results.
Additionally, when a woman works with a man on something often the woman's contribution is assumed to be less than the man's contribution if they're listed as co-authors - I would be very surprised if this weren't the case beyond academia but also in artifacts like design docs.