Black computer science majors have degrees but don't get hired

usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211

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Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY a***ysis shows.

As technology becomes a major engine of economic growth in the U.S. economy, tech companies are under growing pressure to diversify their workforces, which are predominantly white, Asian and male. Leaving African Americans and Hispanics out of that growth increases the divide between haves and have-nots. And the technology industry risks losing touch with the diverse nation — and world — that forms its customer base.

On average, just 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are black

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and Yahoo declined to comment on the disparity between graduation rates and their hiring rates.

In an interview earlier this year, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the key to getting more women and minorities into the technology field had to start with improvements to education.

One of the key problems: There are elite computer science departments that graduate larger numbers of African-American and Hispanic students, but they are not the ones where leading companies recruit employees. Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA and MIT are among the most popular for recruiting by tech companies, according to research by Wired magazine.

Something always been off about bro to me lol always into some bullshit

Happy Kwanza

Can't wait til this young king gets into the MLB

Interesting thread

Black man celebrates his black wife on KTT. You love to see it
ktt2.com/the-mrs-got-interviewed-by-our-state-104973

I hate this take forreal.

Respect bro. I didn’t even know about this thread. This hard

Nah she on some s***

I'll never understand the mental gymnastics some black people make in order to find some way to shame black people and defend white people saying the N word.

"You can't be mad about others saying it when we use it for common and friendly conversation"

Gay people use "queer" and "f*g" among themselves in friendly manners all the time and you don't see people losing their minds at not being allowed to say it, or even wanting to say in general.

Why do black people always have to be the ones to share our culture and our language and things we have reclaimed for ourselves, especially when it was mocked (and still is mocked) by the people who want to take from it?

Sick of that goofy s***.

anybody know any good journals or books on hotep? i grew up pretty hotep and been wanting more sociological studies by black ppl on the hotep phenomenon . it sucks seeing ppl you care about subscribe to bullshit beliefs bc they don’t really have any information on black history.

it’s a double edged sword for me bc it made me love being black growing up, but a lot of the beliefs are just stupid and impossible to put up with.

anybody grew up this way and been tryna figure it out for themselves too?

Too many niggas got on kumbya capes for white folks and don’t respect black culture enough

I remember reading somewhere that unless you’re at an hbcu it’s hard asf for black folks to get stem jobs when they graduate from pwis for some reason

You would think the brothers and sisters at the would be getting easier placements but that’s not the case

Recruiting process is nonexistent.
And the actual interview process sounds rigged.
Unless u "fit the culture", of course.
The hbcus teach them the hard hittin, text-book stuff,
but not the nuisances of how to ingratiate with these companies.
I remember hearing that they have actual 8 week+ classes at Standford on how to pass Google interviews.

Bruuuuh I'm dine

Any Divine 9 threads here on KTT?

I was telling my boy tho niggas who go to a hbcu always come out with a job. its us PWI boys that's struggling

I feel like they're attempting to...man I wish I knew the right words for this, weaponize black women against black people.

Like what is this b?

The whole "black women will save us" thing, while I believe has merit, has been making me feel extremely uncomfortable now that it seems like politicians have co-opted it. I feel like they were mocking black people and our lack of trust in doctors by plastering a black nurse as one of the first people to take the vaccination.

Now this ain't an anti-vax thing it's moreso...aight who gives a f***? Just because they gotta black woman getting the vaccine that automatically means black people's feelings towards doctors are no longer valid?

How they paraded Kamala Harris around (and I already got my own feelings about her) and Stacey Abrams as well it just feels so performative.

Maybe it's just because I don't trust politicians and the US government for s***. But I just really don't like how we've seemingly been getting used throughout 2020. It's not just in politics, but media too in TV shows, commercials, etc.

I 100% agree with everything you just said bro

Holy s***

It's not at all a means to say "don't trust black women" or anything like that just to clarify. But the sudden interest they've taken into black people via use of black women is very disingenuous.

Nah I get where you’re coming from. They’re trying to weaponize black women against the community by appealing to their self-esteem which is super nefarious. That’s where this whole weak link rhetoric is coming from

Like I knew we were f***ed when they managed to get black women to start caping for Kamala Harris