Is Big Tech Still Struggling With Diversity?

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  • 게시일 2020. 08. 17.
  • Millions of dollars have been spent, and years have been devoted to diversifying tech workforces and being more inclusive, yet women still only make up an average of 32% of 10 major US tech companies, Latinx employees make up an average of 8%, Black employees make up an average of 7% and Indigenous employees make up an average of 0.5%. These percentages are not representative of the greater US population, according to the Census Bureau. Why are tech companies still struggling to diversify their workforces and why is it important that they do so?
    CORRECTION (August 17, 2020): An earlier version of this video incorrectly characterized George Zimmerman. He was a member of the neighborhood watch, not a police officer.
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    Are Apple, Google And Others Still Struggling With Diversity?

댓글 • 676

  • @qeva_
    @qeva_ 3 년 전 +418

    About 99% of U.S. garbage collectors are men. By your logic you should talk about this huge problem in your next video

    • @taramauroa
      @taramauroa 3 년 전 +5

      100% of your comment is dumb lol, talk about dumb comments in your next video lol

    • @egar3427
      @egar3427 3 년 전 +16

      @@taramauroa you're absolutely correct. Hiring people based on race in order to diversify, that is the definition of racism

    • @kiraasuka9943
      @kiraasuka9943 3 년 전 +7

      @Youtuve Youtuve nba should have more Asian and Latinos!

    • @brigadiergeneral2399
      @brigadiergeneral2399 3 년 전

      Qv said like a real the real privileged loser you are.

    • @thatgui88
      @thatgui88 2 년 전

      I think having a great diverse in people in tech jobs is good sense those people are marginalized. Those are good jobs too have. Having a job like that would benefit their family alot more.

  • @KhanhTran-rg5us
    @KhanhTran-rg5us 3 년 전 +504

    I am guessing Asian isn't considered a minority anymore.

    • @justanotheruser2611
      @justanotheruser2611 3 년 전

      Blue lives Matter well surprise surprise, I am an asian in the US. You guys are both spreading blatant misinformation

    • @guslevy3506
      @guslevy3506 3 년 전

      They’re not REALLY American...

    • @lampstax
      @lampstax 3 년 전

      @@guslevy3506 Asian not really American ?
      Also asian has widest income gap of any ethnicity in us. Means that they are both richest and poorest.

    • @Panda13572
      @Panda13572 3 년 전 +1

      @@kuvjason7236 If you break the data down on blacks and even whites you see the same stuff. Theres an article in The Crimson which goes along the lines of more blacks going to Harvard but which blacks,at a time when 12% of blacks in america were 1st or 2nd generation immigrants, 40% of blacks at harvard were of those two groups. Also Scandinavian and those more more developed white countries heavily outperform the eastern europeans

    • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 3 년 전 +1

      Because it harms the Left's political narrative.

  • @jameswaterson3883
    @jameswaterson3883 3 년 전 +286

    We need an Asian quota in basketball. Too many black players are in the NBA. Racism.

    • @groob33
      @groob33 3 년 전 +46

      And why aren't there more Little People? What's that about?

    • @markyouneva7840
      @markyouneva7840 3 년 전 +50

      And we need Chinese restaurants to start hiring non-asian workers. 100% of their workers are asian. What's up with that?

    • @groob33
      @groob33 3 년 전 +32

      Yeah, and we need more women represented in the coal mining industry... as well as sanitation.

    • @jameswaterson3883
      @jameswaterson3883 3 년 전 +11

      @@groob33 and construction

    • @unknownchannel3141
      @unknownchannel3141 3 년 전 +2

      AGREED. "HEIGHT DISCRIMINATION"

  • @sadmancho
    @sadmancho 3 년 전 +235

    We need more women in construction work, ac repair, automotive repair, and industrial welding. Why are we never trying to get more women in those type of jobs? Like 98% of those jobs are men and those jobs pay well.

    • @doomtomb3
      @doomtomb3 3 년 전 +25

      Sadman Chowdhury We need more men in childcare services, administrative assistants, and cheerleaders

    • @DhrubajyotiRaja01
      @DhrubajyotiRaja01 3 년 전 +29

      @@doomtomb3 That's what he is talking about..... Demographics of any Sector doesn't show Racism.... It's just CNBC the Extreme Liberal Giant....

    • @sadmancho
      @sadmancho 3 년 전 +7

      doomtomb3 I’m saying it doesn’t matter if it’s tech sector or any particular sector people will just gravitate to certain jobs fields but tech gets pushed as a sector that lacks in women but there are many more jobs out there that have a larger disparity but is never pushed to change to add women. Really it shouldn’t matter and people should be hired by their skills not gender.

    • @unknownchannel3141
      @unknownchannel3141 3 년 전 +14

      & homelessness too, currently about 75% are men, let's make it 50/50

    • @patrickpaterson8785
      @patrickpaterson8785 3 년 전 +12

      Those jobs are not office-based climate controlled environments... so you'll never see it happen.

  • @erikasegawa2523
    @erikasegawa2523 3 년 전 +127

    they should be hiring based on qualifications not race🤦‍♀️

    • @watomb
      @watomb 3 년 전 +15

      They do that an that’s why so many Asians

    • @aachyut7558
      @aachyut7558 3 년 전 +16

      The problems starts with education. Not many black, hispanic people study tech so they don't end up in tech.

    • @gamesavvy9491
      @gamesavvy9491 3 년 전 +1

      is that writen in stone ?

    • @davidmeridian1288
      @davidmeridian1288 3 년 전 +5

      @@aachyut7558 I don' t have stats in front of me, but I've seen them before & it dovetails with your point. STEM disciplines (excluding biology to a degree) are heavily male, and white/asian dominated as well.
      I'm not sure what Big Tech/corporations are expected to do about that.
      Regardless, we need meritocracy, not racial condescension or "inverted" racism.

    • @davidmeridian1288
      @davidmeridian1288 3 년 전 +3

      @WELCOME TO THE FUTURE Admissions to colleges are indeed institutionally racist, but in the opposite way you might presume. Blacks, hispanics, & native americans have aggregate lower scores than whites & esp asians. Thus, lower scores required to get them admitted.
      College tuition is exceedingly expensive, and hence the massive student load burden. That burden is not limited to a single racial group.
      I think we can agree that the way forward is for students' excuses, if valid, to be considered, but the "everyone is racist" excuse to be dropped. The very fact that asians are outperforming whites should at least offer _some_ evidence that white supremacy -- to the extent to which it exists anywhere -- isn't calling the shots. Academia is the most "woke" institution on the planet. So at some point we need to consider that avg differences in behavior across groups seems to affect their aggregate performance.

  • @JHarding97
    @JHarding97 3 년 전 +220

    Hey guys maybe if we upload it one more time we can change the narrative this time

  • @konachun117
    @konachun117 3 년 전 +115

    I feel like this channel has an idea then finds data to support it, rather than making an idea from supporting evidence

    • @ethanYT_1219
      @ethanYT_1219 3 년 전

      True

    • @vishnumohank1299
      @vishnumohank1299 3 년 전 +2

      I think its called "Confirmation Bias" and its quite hard to keep in check.

    • @taramauroa
      @taramauroa 3 년 전

      this channel makes a video then u think of a problem with it then write a comment lol

  • @samueljrichardson2499
    @samueljrichardson2499 3 년 전 +90

    You hire the best candidate. Why should people get hired solely because the color of their skin?

    • @optimus5306
      @optimus5306 3 년 전 +1

      Ήρθα για να γελάσω με εσένα but your couldn’t debate him could you...

    • @optimus5306
      @optimus5306 3 년 전

      You

    • @thisistheaccountname
      @thisistheaccountname 3 년 전 +2

      It's not getting hired because of the color of your skin.
      It's about not getting hired because of the color of their skin.

  • @Arcticwhir
    @Arcticwhir 3 년 전 +103

    We should strive for equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.

    • @lampstax
      @lampstax 3 년 전 +5

      Totally for this. Equality of outcome ensure disparity in opportunity.

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 3 년 전 +6

      So true. If a certain race is simply not working hard enough it's their fault that there are not many people from that race .

    • @ilovehonglong
      @ilovehonglong 3 년 전

      Now it’s just chauvinism

    • @salomondushimirimana1563
      @salomondushimirimana1563 3 년 전 +3

      @@oliverm1255 So what you mean to say is that black people don't work hard wee enough! That's ridiculous. I have a black friend who finished at Harvard in CS. He got rejected by these tech companies with no apparent reason yet his counterpart whit friends got offers. Not to mention a lot of opportunities that most white people are privileged to have while black people continue being oppressed. I don't how you feel about this, but it's not because black ppl aren't as hard working.

    • @johnsmith6974
      @johnsmith6974 3 년 전 +3

      @@salomondushimirimana1563 Umm alot of people in tech are Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern so...where do they cash in their privilege points?

  • @user-gc1hg9sp9k
    @user-gc1hg9sp9k 3 년 전 +203

    "doesn't matter it's black cat or white cat, as long it's can catch mice" den xiaoping

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 3 년 전 +6

      *Democrats want to know your location*

    • @Archonsx
      @Archonsx 3 년 전 +11

      Your comment should be pined. Smart and to the point. Ones skin shouldn’t matter, I want a well made quality product, I don’t care about what color or race the person who made it is.

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 3 년 전 +6

      @@Archonsx Sadly, that will never happen because ending racism has turned into giving an advantage to a certain race.

    • @taramauroa
      @taramauroa 3 년 전 +1

      republican want to give u a job in the whitehouse lol

    • @AlohaBaby1004
      @AlohaBaby1004 3 년 전

      Chinese spy ?

  • @nomdegre8420
    @nomdegre8420 3 년 전 +59

    Does this mean that you should be black or colored that you be hired? Diversity for diversity sake? It must be based on fair criteria, colorless standard and genderless hiring spectrum.

    • @camerontaylor7471
      @camerontaylor7471 3 년 전 +6

      You shouldn’t hire based on gender or color, this is true! so then how do we create a fair and equal society? A society that assigned labels and stereotypes on an individual who has no control over the conditions they are born into and with....the status quo isn’t working.... you clearly see a huge gap between white men and everyone else...

  • @sgao
    @sgao 3 년 전 +23

    I like how the narrator completely ignores the "30% of employees are asian" part and just focus on other minorities. It's like that asian isn't a minority in U.S.

    • @jlars21
      @jlars21 3 년 전

      The narrator clearly discusses that the breakdown of Asian doesn’t represent the full range of people of Asian descent. Often people of Southeast Asian descent experience worse health outcomes, higher rates of poverty, etc. That’s why it’s important to know who we’re talking about when we say “Asian.”

  • @concernedcitizen6577
    @concernedcitizen6577 3 년 전 +139

    Let's make sure this upload has more dislikes than the original upload

    • @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw
      @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw 3 년 전 +6

      Deal

    • @brianaragon1641
      @brianaragon1641 3 년 전

      Why?

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 3 년 전 +6

      Brian Aragón Because they are right wing snowflakes who think racism magically died in 2008.

    • @NicoCappa
      @NicoCappa 3 년 전 +6

      @@brianaragon1641 they eliminated the previous one because of the dislikes

    • @cjspyker
      @cjspyker 3 년 전

      @@NicoCappa someone said that they had in ever in the video that they had to correct about Zimmerman

  • @pteranodon6612
    @pteranodon6612 3 년 전 +20

    The demographics of these tech companies matches up with who I saw in my Computer Science classes. The focus should be on participation in CS education.

    • @cjspyker
      @cjspyker 3 년 전 +3

      finally someone with a brain in the comments

  • @TruthShallPrevail4
    @TruthShallPrevail4 3 년 전 +20

    You can’t blame employers for not having diverse workplace. They just tap into the pool of available workers. If you want greater representation, it starts at elementary, middle, high school, and at home. It’s too late if the workforce has already graduated and they studied non-STEM field. All that said, I think you can argue that tech companies have a social responsibility to invest in under represented communities. Focus on the root of the issue, not the end result.

  • @ezioaltairac
    @ezioaltairac 3 년 전 +45

    Why did this get reuploaded?

    • @Kage-jk4pj
      @Kage-jk4pj 3 년 전 +16

      @@IanHlinak wrong, they removed a line about Zimmerman being a cop. If they couldn't handle criticism they wouldn't have the comments open. If anything they like arguments and criticism. As the more comments, likes and dislikes. The more their video is recommended.

    • @Kevin-eq9qo
      @Kevin-eq9qo 3 년 전 +1

      Someone reusing templates.

    • @saulgoodman2018
      @saulgoodman2018 3 년 전 +5

      @@Kage-jk4pj KRplus has an edit feature, Where you can edit it without deleting it.

  • @byyVarial
    @byyVarial 3 년 전 +37

    1. Tarika says whites were told in the 90s that they could code, that's why we see less diversity. However, we can see in the numbers that Asians are overrepresented. -> First argument has no logic.
    2. Jon Fortt says that there are not enough incentives to develop domestic talents as we can recruit from foreign countries (especially Asian countries) easily. It is not the company's job to make you better, it is yours. Again this argument has no logic and the US has the best schools for creating the best engineers.
    3. They say that diversity matters with some weird studies that prove that it can improve innovation. This is like saying putting 3 plants in your office will make you 50% more efficient. Innovation is not about colour or ethnicity. It's about knowledge. The more you know the more you can imagine.
    4. In the biggest hurdles chapter, we can find some truths like targeting the best schools isn't the best way of acquiring the best talents. Take in mind that these US schools are very expensive so if your family ain't rich you cannot go there except if you take the risk of indebting yourself. However again the video gives you some fake/weird numbers like 52% of women experienced bias, discrimination, etc. and in the end, they add "or knew a woman who had"... This additional parameter bumps up the stat so much that you cannot take this number seriously. Furthermore, the wage gap part should be taken with precaution. These numbers are probably false depending on how the statistical model was made. And again, a wage gap does not make any sense in a capitalist society.
    5. They say only 27% of the leading force are women, but women make only 32% of the total workforce according to them. This actually says that women have almost the same chances as men to get a leadership position. So there is actually no problem.
    6. To myself, things need to be fixed at the educational level (equal access to the educational system), not at the corporate level and this is what Apple and all the other blue chips try to do with their own power. Of course, these companies cannot fix everything with their money, things have also to move politically thanks to lawmakers. However, the participants of this small documentary are not convinced, they want more, they want to see people of colour being hired in executive positions. But this is not fair, people should get these positions thanks to their competencies, not their ethnicity. Otherwise, it's just discrimination.
    Finally, this is a really biased video with a lot of lies. We should always seek for a meritocratic system. Everyone should be treated equally. Your origins should never influence your success or failure rate. Unfortunately, that is not what these people in this video ask. They want to fix the equality problem by suppressing meritocracy and equal treatment. They want to choose who goes where in order to fix equality. In other words, they want power, they want to choose who does what.

    • @awesome_mihir
      @awesome_mihir 3 년 전 +5

      I like you.

    • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 3 년 전 +4

      👏👏👏

    • @ShaudaySmith
      @ShaudaySmith 3 년 전 +4

      THIS! YES! THANK YOU! i literally was about to sit down and do a point by point breakdown. Then i, luckily, decided to scroll and saw you masterful analysis of this video. Thanks for doing the work and expressing what i most likely would have flubbed.

    • @judotaffy
      @judotaffy 3 년 전 +4

      Excellent points, all true.

    • @Skiperzik
      @Skiperzik 3 년 전 +4

      Ye makes sense

  • @Kage-jk4pj
    @Kage-jk4pj 3 년 전 +20

    Any mentioning of diversity will be met with dislikes regardless of the content.

    • @MsEliteForever
      @MsEliteForever 3 년 전 +6

      Exactly.

    • @mikemosc3254
      @mikemosc3254 3 년 전 +1

      Lol someone removed my comment because I satirized this opinion by making a fake quote of someone saying " get me the red haired n*gresse" in order to show that this commitment to diversity of color rather than ideas is akin to a man diversifying a harem. Lol apparently that's offensive in your country. How interesting that a neutral word in my country is offensive to morons in the United states.

  • @xutian9279
    @xutian9279 3 년 전 +57

    “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character”
    In the world of business, only those that can help earn money will be hired, regardless of their race background.

    • @ahsm16
      @ahsm16 3 년 전

      Now they will say you are racist against people who cannot help making more money. Lol

    • @watomb
      @watomb 3 년 전

      Tech is already the ideal place if your smart you can thrive in it. The data clearly shows this with Asians making 30%

    • @richardcerritelli9657
      @richardcerritelli9657 11 개월 전

      Did it ever occur to you maybe that black people aren't smart enough that applied for the job it is Hi-Tech not going out there playing basketball or football.

  • @ladhkay
    @ladhkay 3 년 전 +68

    Just so happens that more men than women are in IT/Tech so obv makes sense for more men to be in the workforce duh. Talent should reign supreme regardless of gender, race, etc. Asians/Whites are more into tech so there's more of em. Blacks are more into sports than academics so more of them in pro leagues.

    • @mikesgamelab6369
      @mikesgamelab6369 3 년 전 +8

      Oh great, “meritocracy” again. Here’s a reality check; talent doesn’t reign supreme in the workforce. Connections do. And your logic is atrocious. The makeup of a single or even handful of companies does not reflect the talent pool of the entire industry. And to spout such blatant stereotypes is nothing short of racist, but that’s about what I expect from any moron who still sips this meritocracy kool-aid.

    • @BaoNguyen-un1km
      @BaoNguyen-un1km 3 년 전 +9

      Lol. I totally agree, they need more skinny Asians like myself in pro football. Where's the diversity in that field?

    • @cjspyker
      @cjspyker 3 년 전 +1

      that's like saying it just so happens pink is the color for girls and blue is the color for boys. and not knowing how we reach that point.

    • @sangchunlee1217
      @sangchunlee1217 3 년 전

      You are absolutely right about everything. It is just we Asians don’t get into NFL or NBA cause we just can’t jump or run as fast. We figured we would make more money by reading books. That’s why Asians choose golf cause it makes money and don’t have to be faster or jump higher.

    • @jermainburnett8594
      @jermainburnett8594 2 년 전

      Black into music and sports than academics

  • @rohanfrancis6619
    @rohanfrancis6619 3 년 전 +7

    "When people get used to preferential treatment; equal treatment seems like discrimination " - Thomas Sowell

  • @ahsm16
    @ahsm16 3 년 전 +7

    They are literally asking the company is to be racist .
    Last time I have checked racism is treating people differently based on their skin Color, gender ...

  • @sugreev2001
    @sugreev2001 3 년 전 +38

    Do one about the lack of diversity in the NBA Or NFL.

    • @maxriggah299
      @maxriggah299 3 년 전 +1

      Nah they should do one about lack of diversity in Hockey & NASCAR

    • @theboringprogrammer4444
      @theboringprogrammer4444 3 년 전

      ​@@maxriggah299
      But NBA and NFL doesn't matter? Why?

    • @johnames6430
      @johnames6430 2 년 전 +1

      or at Amazon and CNBC itself (last I watched they had ZERO black anchors giving financial news!).

  • @daibin5
    @daibin5 3 년 전 +8

    1:57 "We are losing globally because we are not diversified". I guess comparing to India and China, the US is not competitive enough because Asians are not 99% of the IT workforce yet LOL

  • @Rise9192Against
    @Rise9192Against 3 년 전 +4

    Jordan Peterson: Woman like people, men like things. That’s why you see women in service industries and men in tech.

  • @trhobbies9382
    @trhobbies9382 3 년 전 +24

    You hire who is right for the job not by their color of skin or ethnicity

    • @ivanb1948
      @ivanb1948 3 년 전 +1

      Well said, I don't know why people can't assimilate it

    • @dimitarmargaritov
      @dimitarmargaritov 3 년 전

      @@ivanb1948 The world is crazy thats why.

  • @Desireoffreedom
    @Desireoffreedom 3 년 전 +16

    Chinese brands sure do care a lot about diversity and somehow manage to work by hiring the best,mind blowing I know

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 3 년 전 +1

      This is why Chinese companies will always win.

  • @jleebra
    @jleebra 3 년 전 +3

    All companies want to hire the best and brightest. You are essentially handicapping them by forcing them to hire based on diversity. This will never work in a free and competitive society. If you want more diversity then make sure all groups are equally educated and qualified. Then everything will fall into it’s natural order.

  • @abdullaalkhoori8161
    @abdullaalkhoori8161 3 년 전 +5

    Yes tech does suffer from lack of diversity. On mobiles we only have iOS or Andorid and on computers its either Windows or MacOS

  • @bot6349
    @bot6349 3 년 전 +19

    lol this is a joke u get hired cuz ure qualified, capable and competent

  • @dsjanc
    @dsjanc 3 년 전 +22

    Omg, you hire people based on skills esp in high tech!

    • @johnames6430
      @johnames6430 2 년 전 +1

      no actually some of these corps are so rich they gift positions to women and others to be woke

  • @freedone.
    @freedone. 3 년 전 +5

    Quotas don't work. This video may be well-intentioned but it leaves out many factors.

  • @Denis-ue2nz
    @Denis-ue2nz 2 년 전 +3

    There is a problem. Representation matters. There a lot of non-tech related jobs in tech but minorities are still underrepresented in these fields. By glassdoor's metrics, 43% of jobs being hired by tech companies today are non-tech jobs. Having different perspectives is good and helps better represent the people that use the products. The problem isn't diversity. It's hiring discrimination.

    • @jamiebarr3118
      @jamiebarr3118 년 전

      It's definitely not hiring discrimination. If that were the case, there would be a *lot* more white people in tech. But there are actually less white people in big tech than U.S. demographics would predict. In reality, there are just way more Asian people going into tech than black or hispanic people. I doubt you've taken a college computer science class recently but if you had you wouldn't be making such wildly inaccurate claims. I'm all for diversity when possible but if women and minorities don't want to become computer programmers, that's their choice.

    • @tang3456
      @tang3456 5 개월 전

      @@jamiebarr3118It is definitely hiring discrimination, the model minority states that asians are smarter and more hardworking than other minorities when that is nothing but a stereotype. Asians are being hired based on the fact that the employers assume they will be strong assets.

    • @jamiebarr3118
      @jamiebarr3118 5 개월 전

      @@tang3456 There may be some legitimate implicit bias going on but genuinely... go take a comp sci class at a 4 year university and look around then get back to me.

  • @dennistani1986
    @dennistani1986 3 년 전 +2

    The biggest diversity problem is with the NFL and NBA. I need to see a larger diversity of players, especially asian and hispanic .....and we need to see that NOW. Thank you

  • @sheikhlitu1059
    @sheikhlitu1059 3 년 전 +1

    I am a Bangladeshi and I think I applied almost 450+ jobs in past 15 months, and the few 15-20 places I did got a reply where I did not shared my race or gender identity.

  • @kanden27
    @kanden27 3 년 전 +1

    Comparing a warehouse job, where any guy can roll up and get the job, to a software engineer that takes not only years of study but a talent for. Is the most weightless claim in this video.

  • @a7medsharaf1
    @a7medsharaf1 3 년 전 +3

    I really struggle with the concept itself ! Why race should be even considred and companies must have diversity ? Companies must focus only on getting the best talaents . Politics of race should stay our of it completely . this is a business for profit .

  • @satyajeetpatil9076
    @satyajeetpatil9076 3 년 전 +2

    It also depends how is the diversity in the workforce available in the country. For example if percentage latinx skilled for tech workforce is 5% then their percentage in tech work force can't go beyond 5%.

  • @dlewis8405
    @dlewis8405 3 년 전

    I think the section discussing the education pipeline goes to the heart of the issue. My cousin works for Google. He was doing college level math in the tenth grade, wound up going to Caltech or somewhere. He interviewed with Google but then after the interview they emailed him this really hard math problem that would have to be solved in 24 hours. He got back to them with a correct answer but using a novel way of arriving at it.

  • @markyouneva7840
    @markyouneva7840 3 년 전 +6

    I like how the focus is on big tech "diversity" when big tech is busy accumulating and aggregating data that reveals every aspect of our lives. Google, for example, which owns this youtube platform I and criticizing them on, also plans to buy Fitbit fitness platform, which I am also using. So they have access to my email, my social media (youtube is considered social media), my heart rate data, when and where I'm going, etc. Without government intervention and regulation, they can simply snuff me out for saying what I'm saying here if and when they get the power. Let's focus on this, not diversity in hiring, for crying out loud.

    • @Theaksten
      @Theaksten 3 년 전

      No one cares about your inane white problems.

    • @xamphibiax
      @xamphibiax 3 년 전

      Theaksten - Did you not read what he typed? When I press send, this’ll be going straight to Utah.

    • @markyouneva7840
      @markyouneva7840 3 년 전

      @@Theaksten white problems matter!!

    • @xamphibiax
      @xamphibiax 3 년 전 +1

      Theaksten - He brought up world problems. Man vs machine problems. Surveillance state problems... I guess as long as it’s racially diverse 😂

    • @xamphibiax
      @xamphibiax 3 년 전 +1

      Mark Youneva - To a degree. White people do kind of have their foot in the door above all others, but the goal of liberating other “races” should not be to oppress another.... as if we didn’t already learn that lesson a thousand times.

  • @grygghnn
    @grygghnn 3 년 전 +1

    Hiring minorities for the sake of hiring them is the greatest example of inequality in this world. Award people base on their merits.

  • @mrtek8095
    @mrtek8095 3 년 전 +2

    Anyone else watch the original version of this, I did it's just the same with a different title. I wonder if CNBC will re-upload this one ..... AGAIN!

  • @WhoElseButMeNumbaOne
    @WhoElseButMeNumbaOne 3 년 전 +7

    No

  • @joeywright722
    @joeywright722 3 년 전 +2

    How can you achieve diversity when blacks, Hispanics and women don’t get into STEM in the numbers that you need them to? Then what?

  • @Anonym-dx2tp
    @Anonym-dx2tp 3 년 전 +6

    In my opinion it should be that the best qualified person for the job should get it, no matter which ethnicity the person has.

  • @Bergamot88
    @Bergamot88 3 년 전 +11

    It’s racist to hire someone based on diversity.

    • @maxriggah299
      @maxriggah299 3 년 전

      Its racist to not.

    • @theboringprogrammer4444
      @theboringprogrammer4444 3 년 전

      @@maxriggah299
      So if I hire someone just because they're white in my mainly black workforce, is it racist?

  • @BoramKim1992
    @BoramKim1992 3 년 전 +1

    I think the issue is there’s a lack of women and minorities in these programs in college. Start from the source, these companies are just hiring the best and the best has already pre chosen these white and Asian employees

  • @josephsebastian2025
    @josephsebastian2025 3 년 전 +2

    They hire on basis of qualifications (as the way it should be) and not on the basis of race and gender which would be racist and sexist and also apparently something CNBC likes.

  • @danielashcroft3512
    @danielashcroft3512 3 년 전 +3

    As a software developer, I think some of you are forgetting something very important that there are a lot of constantly open jobs in tech that never get filled and that we aren't trying to compete in some small funnel unless you are really trying to get something specific. So trying to make it more diverse is not that they are trying to ignore peoples talents but to hired along with them and encourage them to pursue these careers. It can be. But it is not always that way it is a mix of both. It is not a binary one or the other.

  • @nicfeller
    @nicfeller 3 년 전 +4

    There are also not enough women in prison!

  • @saulgoodman2018
    @saulgoodman2018 3 년 전 +8

    Guess they didn't like all the negative comments on the old one. So they deleted that, and reuploaded it.

  • @tarunmathew88
    @tarunmathew88 3 년 전 +2

    Such claims of victimisation! I work in top engineering firm with a diverse workforce. All they see is your skill!

  • @Spiritfba
    @Spiritfba 2 년 전 +2

    One only needs to read the comments to see that racism and sexism is still a huge problem in this country.

  • @faychen4059
    @faychen4059 3 년 전 +12

    When I was in engineering school, I only have one black classmate and women were about 10-20% of my class. How do you expect companies to hire someone who's not even there?

  • @mzamroni
    @mzamroni 3 년 전 +1

    Engineering jobs naturally makes the workers looks nerd.
    Meanwhile, many people, especially girls, naturally doesn't want to look as nerds.

  • @cocoastarrion4563
    @cocoastarrion4563 3 년 전 +1

    Maybe this can be one reason that we are losing to Chinese internet companies. Focus more on the tech plz.

  • @abhi01289
    @abhi01289 3 년 전 +1

    Why doesn’t NBA and NFL needs to think about the diversity, talent needs to be respected.

  • @YelloFello15
    @YelloFello15 3 년 전 +10

    Can someone please explain to me how 30% Asian is lacking diversity??????

    • @xGaLoSx
      @xGaLoSx 3 년 전 +3

      Because oppression isn't real and the lack of black and female workers is because they don't have what it takes. Asians have way more than what it takes.

  • @maxmillions7
    @maxmillions7 3 년 전 +1

    It shouldn’t be “diverse”, it should be however does the best job simple as that.

  • @christianfernandez6999

    It just so happens that certain ethnic and family cultures value different interests and careers. Im Filipino, my parents pushed against me hard whenever I said I wanted to be anything else other than a nurse, doctor, lawyer, or engineer. That's my family on careers. To put it solely on poor education will never fully solve the answer of certain minority groups not being fully represented in higher fields of work.

  • @ebenezergetachew5140
    @ebenezergetachew5140 3 년 전 +6

    Amazon hires a lot of diverse people because it has low skilled labor like a warehouse.

  • @johnsmith6974
    @johnsmith6974 3 년 전 +1

    The comment section restores my faith in meritocracy not diversity.
    Let the best person for the job do that job.

  • @TeutorixCR
    @TeutorixCR 3 년 전

    if you need a commercial to show you that you can use computers, your interest in the field is probably none

  • @JH12338
    @JH12338 3 년 전 +2

    Go to any college and look around computer science/engineering classes and its demographics. Thats your answer

  • @bbalila
    @bbalila 3 년 전 +1

    It’s not colour. Companies should sponsor Education or have Courses for people like Google has certifications on Coursa.

  • @exter2000
    @exter2000 3 년 전 +1

    garbagge collectors, people working on construction, etc...
    The opposite happens on education and hospitals.

  • @treezybeats602
    @treezybeats602 3 년 전 +5

    Straight out the comments

  • @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw
    @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw 3 년 전 +7

    The narrator : "LatinX"...
    - Gimme a freaking break pliss.

    • @xamphibiax
      @xamphibiax 3 년 전

      It’s “please” not “pliss.” Give me a break off that KitKat.

    • @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw
      @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw 3 년 전

      @@xamphibiax congrats lil BOI, you just got a A+.
      (sarcastically clapping sound)

    • @xamphibiax
      @xamphibiax 3 년 전

      Oscar Gonzalez - Id say “Latino.” Good luck even teaching that to people. I think the Latinx project is for another day.

    • @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw
      @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw 3 년 전

      @@xamphibiax wait a f* second... I think you misunderstood my comment. I also believe latinx is for like you said "another day". The narrator said it at the beginning that's why I said: gimme a break. :)

    • @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw
      @OscarGonzalez-qm9qw 3 년 전 +1

      @@xamphibiax I edited the comment to make it clearer. Sorry if it was misleading, english isn't my native language.
      ... I'm LatinO. :)

  • @michaelcjakob
    @michaelcjakob 3 년 전 +1

    That dislike/like ratio... CNBC really burned lots of goodwill and seems to have made a huge reputational damage to CNBC with this video

  • @igar6219
    @igar6219 3 년 전 +1

    But the thing is that they should be a test were you have a number like that the judge can only know your carrier and the results of the test, because to say they have to be 50/50 of men and women, ... it’s stupid because if for 100 jobs there is like 51 women or men that have the best qualifications and because of the 50/50 a society have to take someone with less competence just because he is a men or a woman !it’s stupid and really no fair

  • @landoc05
    @landoc05 년 전

    STEM requires you to have money. Can't embark in a scientific career that demands you have the PhD if your family is poor, you need to start working as soon as possible. Engineering requires you to pass a fundamentals exam after graduating, then work four years as an apprentice, and then take the professional exam and pass it before you're actually making money. Mathematics is not an easy field in which to get employment, unless you have the right connections to go into teaching right after graduation.

  • @sergiocastillo6716

    I'm beginning my job search in tech this week after completing a coding boot camp and transitioning from teaching. Wish me luck!

  • @maggiejetson7904
    @maggiejetson7904 3 년 전

    The fundamental starts with K-12, and mainly because of the property tax based education funding leads to good and bad school diverging too far from each other. If you don't fix that you will always have students being way too unprepared for college and tech.

  • @sulamy1955
    @sulamy1955 3 년 전 +1

    “Silicon valley has long had this meritocracy idea” yeah, that’s why it works. Who cares it isn’t perfectly representative. The NBA isn’t either and it’s better for it

  • @ScottTrentonGiants
    @ScottTrentonGiants 2 년 전 +1

    It really starts at the root.
    Latinos and African Americans on average go to high schools that aren’t as good as the ones Caucasian people. These big tech companies have target schools that they hire from. Even if a black person or Hispanic person does super good in high school, the chances of getting accepted to a target school is still considered least than likely to happen. The people who make the hiring decisions are primarily white people who went to many of these target schools.
    We can yell at each other and say, “it’s based off of merit” but the issue isn’t necessarily merit if you were never given the chance to gain the skills or the necessities needed to become a target candidate at these companies. It’s literally that simple. It’s clearly systemic.

    • @thatgui88
      @thatgui88 2 년 전

      Yup it happened to me. Private schools are abundant where I live

  • @TheBrycelee
    @TheBrycelee 3 년 전

    I also feel like the problem is that there is little to no diversity in stem programs (just my observation) if there’s no diversity in the education system, what diversity is there to hire?

  • @Olexandr____
    @Olexandr____ 3 년 전 +1

    That is very stupid. You deliver result - you hired. That is it.

  • @himanshuk177
    @himanshuk177 3 년 전 +1

    Sooner or later talent always wins. If someone got it they make it.

  • @bj1783
    @bj1783 3 년 전

    So you’re telling us that if I am a black man and my friend is caucasian, but we perform equal tasks, his paycheck amount would be north of mine? That’s preposterous.

  • @kingphillieman
    @kingphillieman 3 년 전 +2

    Here I'll help you, look at who is mostly homeless in the bay area. That'll tell you who they hire. Some black people don't feel comfortable working in Silicon Valley. That's mostly because the cultural differences are so vast. This is from a friend who used to work out there. This is the new segregation. The percentage of the charts they show in the video can be used to show who gets housing in the bay area. They don't hire anyone from the area they are located. You never see them at job fairs here. They think they can throw a few million dollars at some "non profit organization" and hope the black people will go away or be quiet. You know how you can make a difference? Hire local. Change the lives of some people from the area where you are located at. Start apprenticeship programs for at risk youth. There are plenty of ways to help. I have over 30 ideas. These non profit organizations don't help the people who actually need it. The people who need it are the families who have been displaced by all the workers they hire. Those families could use a job in tech. We don't need donations to some organization run by more white people who just continue the cycle. The mayor of Oakland has raised 2.5 million dollars for a covid relief fund. How much of that is going in her pocket? What if she took that money and gave it directly to the most impacted working families in Oakland? I think that would make more of a difference. That isn't what it's about though. It's about saying the right things at the right times. Putting black lives matter on your website so you seem concerned. In all actuality, it's just a smoke screen so the hounds don't catch your scent. I'm sick of the fake love. Just be honest and say you don't want us around. You want an all white and Asian utopia in the bay area. That's the end goal. Have a nice day.

  • @xamphibiax
    @xamphibiax 3 년 전 +1

    Big Surveillance State concerned about diversity, but what should you REALLY be concerned about with “big tech?”

  • @swahareddy8822
    @swahareddy8822 3 년 전

    You should compare the tech company representation to representation in STEM/CS majors in college, not only with overall population. Because that is where they (overwhelmingly) pick from.

  • @GVC94
    @GVC94 3 년 전 +6

    This video has seriously got some flaw. At the end of the day organization's look for the talent who can maximize the profit, whether it's black or white, Men or Women..

    • @jlars21
      @jlars21 3 년 전

      There are major structural/institutional/historic issues that still affect Black people and other people today. That’s why equity is important - not equality.

  • @vinothshepard7451
    @vinothshepard7451 3 년 전

    They all are private companies, they dont have diversify their workforce... only government agencies should do that to their workforce... dont put pressure on private companies...

  • @jaeheonkim
    @jaeheonkim 3 년 전

    Politics must be diverse to increase the likelihood of getting everyone's voice equally heard. Education must also be diverse to provide equal learning opportunities. But other professional jobs must be given merit-based, just like how things are with NBA and NFL.

  • @FatNinjaKings
    @FatNinjaKings 3 년 전 +1

    Wtf, you really think women should be equal in tech sector? 😂 It's like wondering why there's not as many men working in design

  • @jiq9178
    @jiq9178 3 년 전

    Nope! I said it once I said it thousand times. What it is struggling with is lack of quality candidates who can look at data and tell the difference between correlation and causation, you know, the people CNBC definitely need.

  • @tennisgeek100
    @tennisgeek100 3 년 전

    Like it was said, nothing will change. this is why I don't want to be in tech even if it pays extremely well

  • @Kevin-eq9qo
    @Kevin-eq9qo 3 년 전 +1

    Ask the question again next year.

  • @21_hetpandya2
    @21_hetpandya2 3 년 전

    It’s not like if they see a black person or an Asian person and reject it right away they do it on the basis of the qualification

  • @ramirotorres7191
    @ramirotorres7191 3 년 전 +1

    Qualified people should get the jobs they apply for. Regardless of race or gender Don't @ me

  • @darlevega9846
    @darlevega9846 3 년 전

    Haven’t watched the video, but it seems like a lot of people are under the impression that we live in a meritocracy and are falling prey to the model minority myth 🙄. Anyways, I think the best solution starts from kindergarten. We should be investing in our low-income communities so that they can have access to classes that can adequately prepare them for careers in STEM. Many public schools still don’t have AP/IB classes and I would wager that most don’t have any programming courses. If students have no exposure and don’t know anyone in those fields, they’re not going to gravitate towards them. The only reason I got into tech is because I did a little bit of “coding” for data analysis in an internship, decided to take a class my sophomore year of college and was hooked. Additionally, we need to give underrepresented groups access to capital so that they can have the opportunity to start their own firms. Most of us can’t ask our parents for $250k let alone $1k. Also, if you see no issue with a specific group of people being grossly over represented in a career (obviously this excludes hard labor as men and women have very different body types) or you say that Group A works harder, it is indicative of essentialism.

  • @tsikasd
    @tsikasd 3 년 전

    What about productivity? What about making the companies competitive to survive the competition? If you force the things and break the competitive advantage of the company don't think that you break the company? Why did the communism did not work in USSR and other countries?

  • @peres9559
    @peres9559 3 년 전

    IT companies shouldn't pick people from MIT and stanford - most ridiculous thing ive heard for a while

  • @Benamp2011
    @Benamp2011 3 년 전 +3

    The same thing that war is done with mostly Men. Coding and programming need nerds and unfortunately most nerds are Men.

  • @GorgyCL
    @GorgyCL 3 년 전

    the chart at 07:08 is a bit misleading, the overall gender difference is less than 3 cents. Though they do not note if these stats are weighted by anything or if they are subset to the tech industry only the disparity is almost negligible in terms of gender, yet quite alarming in terms of race.

  • @mykeegetsit
    @mykeegetsit 3 년 전

    What is the UN for?

  • @kaichen04
    @kaichen04 3 년 전 +1

    49% of people in tech are people of colour. It seems to be less about supremacy and more about who is studying and working hard.

  • @newtec-kd6vy
    @newtec-kd6vy 3 년 전 +1

    Maybe women don’t want the tech jobs....... as a man in tech I can tell you women get every job or promotion they want.

  • @water2770
    @water2770 3 년 전

    according to the 2010 decennial census only .9% of the population of our country are indigenous... or if you don't mind counting mixed breeds 1.7%, but you also have to ask where these indigenous people tend to live or cluster. .3% seems pretty good when you consider that a lot of these tech companies aren't near reservations and some mixed bred indigenous people may have put "white" or whatever for their race making them not counted towards this percentage.