"You have to be lucky (including knowing someone, ie networking), not necessarily good."
Yes, and the network effects are largely detrimental to minority groups since networks tend to be biased toward similar people.
Yes, and the network effects are largely detrimental to minority groups since networks tend to be biased toward similar people.
Seems to me that minorities (Asians) are quite over-represented in tech.
Many people are of course racist and don't count Asians as minorities...
“… detrimental to low socioeconomic status groups, within which minorities are over-represented”.
FTFY, not to be a pedant, but to highlight the fact that many white people from certain backgrounds also struggle with this, while well-connected minorities largely do not.
In fact, connected minorities essentially have super-powered network effects since the demand for minorities who can jump through all of the hiring hoops greatly exceeds the supply.
Yeah, certain minorities can benefit from programs that value them above others, but the above and beyond results you talk about come after the main connections are made. This doesn't extend to all minority groups either, like those with invisible disabilities (after all, it's mostly about how things look).
...in isolated pockets where those things exist.
Outside of those places, minorities have their slider set to something-other-than the easiest difficulty level.
As a white guy in generally good condition, my slider was slid all the way to easy. My road was still super hard - but it was easier than it was for women, brown people, etc.
In 1990 I moved to FL and ran headfirst into no connections=no work. I did the Make Your Own Luck thing. Hundreds of brief introductions led to a few relationships. A few of those became potential leads. It was a years long process. The eventual successes hinged on a few, key connections with people who saw something familiar.
If I hadn't been familiar, I wouldn't have been remembered past the introduction.
Sad Eastern European noises, aka "You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master"