@florida26 And do you know why? It’s because those schools HAVE great programming classes. They TEACH the right material.
And you are flat out wrong about being a white or asian male is going to give you the best chance. I know many people who work at Google specifically. LA times or almost every other news article are blind. They do not know a thing about technology and much less about algorithms. They say that because they don’t know what actually goes into the job process.
Heck. I have many friends that are girls that work at Google and Facebook and they are more than happy.
I alsp have a friend who is in the same grade as me who interned at eBay over the summer and loved it.
I’m from north of Silicon Valley and what you’re saying is wrong.
The number of applicants who make it to and through the interview/hire process is IIRC less than 1%. So its just generally very hard to get a job there.
20 per cent of the technical people at google are women. There are very few blacks or hispanics at google. Also per investigative journalists google and the other tech companies cause women to leave the industry in droves. Those ARE the facts. You can interpret them however you want
No, 30% of their employees are women (dont see a breakdown by job title). They are aware of and working on diversity. Those are the facts http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html
My co-workers son was recently a highly sought recruit by Google and went to work there at the end of last year. He attended our local community college and then transferred to our local, lower tier, very small state college. He had his own very successful software business before he graduated from high school if that makes a difference.
My neighbor’s daughter graduated from MIT in CS. She was in the first semester of a Masters program (@MIT) when a recruiter lured her away to her first job in SF at a starting salary of $180K with a boat load of stock options should the company become public. She is 23 years old. Name of the company? Pinterest.
She will be a multi-millionaire…and will probably leave tech at some point when she starts a family…and later to go into consulting. She will be part of the statistics of fewer women in tech… in the future.
I know lots of women my age who made a fortune in stock options working for Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco etc and quit the workforce to raise kids or do something else.
Looks like that WaPo article, which is almost a year old, may use the same data as I linked above. Can ask my relatives who work there if there is more current internal data, but doubtful, even if there is, that they will be permitted to share it.
What I don’t see is why you even want to work at Google.
Do you want to work there for the perks? For the salary?
Knee-slapper.
There are many job openings but why people say it’s “so hard” to get a job there is because way too many under qualified people are applying to Google.
By this I mean, when they reach the coding interviews, they’re screwed.
People go into them not even having their basic OOP down.
Cognitive ability / problem solving skills, and emergent leadership that they do look for may have a high correlation to admission to highly selective colleges, even if they do not specifically look for graduates of highly selective colleges. There is no contradiction here. I do know someone who worked at Google and was a graduate of a non-flagship state university (non-coastal non-midwest state).