because Asians (chinese/Japanese/Indians) put more effort in their kids education that blacks
Google doesn't like to employ black people
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Google Not Where It Wants To Be On Diversity
“We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google,” says Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google. “We now realize we were wrong, and that it’s time to be candid about the issues. Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity, and it’s hard to address these kinds of challenges if you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts.”
“There are lots of reasons why technology companies like Google struggle to recruit and retain women and minorities,” Bock adds. “For example, women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the United States. Blacks and Hispanics make up under 10 percent of U.S. college grads and collect fewer than 5 percent of degrees in CS majors, respectively. So we’ve invested a lot of time and energy in education.”
Bock notes that Google has given over $40 million to organizations that work to bring computer science education to women and girls, and that it’s been working with historically black colleges and universities to “elevate coursework and attendance” in computer science.
Google has a diversity site where people can see its stats and look at employee resource groups such as the Asian Googler Network, the Black Googler Network, the Filipino Google Network, Gayglers, the Google American Indian Network, the Google Veterans Network, Google Women in Engineering, Greyglers, the Hispanic Googlers Network, the Indus Googler Network, Mosaic, the Special Needs Network, and Women@Google.
It also shows company people programs and policies as well as efforts to increase diversity on the web at large. These include a small business training program, the small business Google+ community, the Getting Latino Businesses Online program, resources for entrepreneurs, and resources for women entrepreneurs.
http://www.webpronews.com/google-not-where-it-wants-to-be-on-diversity-2014-05
“We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google,” says Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google. “We now realize we were wrong, and that it’s time to be candid about the issues. Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity, and it’s hard to address these kinds of challenges if you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts.”
“There are lots of reasons why technology companies like Google struggle to recruit and retain women and minorities,” Bock adds. “For example, women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the United States. Blacks and Hispanics make up under 10 percent of U.S. college grads and collect fewer than 5 percent of degrees in CS majors, respectively. So we’ve invested a lot of time and energy in education.”
Bock notes that Google has given over $40 million to organizations that work to bring computer science education to women and girls, and that it’s been working with historically black colleges and universities to “elevate coursework and attendance” in computer science.
Google has a diversity site where people can see its stats and look at employee resource groups such as the Asian Googler Network, the Black Googler Network, the Filipino Google Network, Gayglers, the Google American Indian Network, the Google Veterans Network, Google Women in Engineering, Greyglers, the Hispanic Googlers Network, the Indus Googler Network, Mosaic, the Special Needs Network, and Women@Google.
It also shows company people programs and policies as well as efforts to increase diversity on the web at large. These include a small business training program, the small business Google+ community, the Getting Latino Businesses Online program, resources for entrepreneurs, and resources for women entrepreneurs.
http://www.webpronews.com/google-not-where-it-wants-to-be-on-diversity-2014-05
A complete smokescreen. Actually Black and Hispanics make up 19% of all Bachelor degrees and around 17% of all Masters degrees.
Additionally, Google is trying to focus on the CS degree issue so that you don't look at their non tech and leadership diversity numbers.
I'm sorry but we're too well represented in finance, marketing, legal and other non tech industries for Google to only have 7% Black and Hispanic representation in non tech jobs.
Finally...never believe numbers Google tells you..find out for yourself:
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
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house101
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Thats in the real world... On bgol they are racist...Google should start programs that encourage inner city blacks to study computer science.. It's Michael Jordans fault somehow...
Your low post count and the fact you'll swallow anything Google tells you makes you a CAC suspect.
They called this data a trade secret...
They were engaged in some wage theft scheme, blocking employees from leaving for higher paying positions somewhere else. Even though the CEO is worth billions. On top of their cooperation with the NSA.
I am moving my email to another provider. They are coming out with open source phones that I am taking a look at.
They want to enter into markets in Africa and have this horrible hiring practice in the U.S.
They were engaged in some wage theft scheme, blocking employees from leaving for higher paying positions somewhere else. Even though the CEO is worth billions. On top of their cooperation with the NSA.
I am moving my email to another provider. They are coming out with open source phones that I am taking a look at.
They want to enter into markets in Africa and have this horrible hiring practice in the U.S.
Although I've never worked for Google, I do work in staffing...have done so for 18+ yrs spanning many industries...including Ivy League. Let me share some insight...when you have a homogenized group of people doing the sourcing, screening and making the hiring decisions, then you will inevitably have a homogeneous workforce. Secondly, you must NEVER allow anyone, nor yourself to be called a minority...that term is dangerous, untrue, and in my opinion one of the core reasons why this society view or value as less than. justmy2cents#
Although I've never worked for Google, I do work in staffing...have done so for 18+ yrs spanning many industries...including the Ivy League. Let me share some insight...when you have a homogenized group of people doing the sourcing, screening and making the hiring decisions, then you will inevitably have a homogeneous workforce. Secondly, you must NEVER allow anyone, nor yourself to be called a minority...that term is dangerous, untrue, and in my opinion one of the core reasons why this society view or value as less than. justmy2cents#
Right... Asian parents put books in their kids hands, Black parents hand their kids Footballs.
I'm 100% in the same boat. Just not in the exact same field. Its very frustrating. I can update my resume, put it up and the next day get bombarded with calls and emails for positions. I'm more in the field of Director levels of IT roles. I'll speak to entire teams over the phone, but the second I meet in person, things change almost instantly. One time I met with a team of VP's and after it was over the recruiting firm rep actually said they were racist. He was clearly upset(he was a white guy), said he didn't want to give me the details but wasn't going to work with them again. I have three face to face interviews coming up this week. I'm dreading them. Last year I have a final interview for a upper level management spot with a large company here in saint Louis. As I was being lead to the VP's office, nothing but white faces giving me looks of, "what the fuck you doing here". I mean a sea of fucking white faces. No Asian, no Hispanic, no Indian, like 20 people in IT all white.
It frustrates me to no end.
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house101
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And my dick that you're following suggests that you're a typical down low faggot... Typical in our community.
The reality is Black people don't generally study in fields relevant to what Google is looking for. Too bad you bleeding heart loser clowns can't accept any fucking reality at all unless it proves bias.
The sad part of this entire site is you dumb ass niggas think I'm a cac... You think I'm a coon and an uncle tom, meanwhile you IMBECILES don't realize that I have the deepest hate for cacs... More than all of you combined. That doesn't mean I have to show it by loving all blacks no matter who they are...
You people here feel the way to show your black loyalty is to embrace 100% of black people and condemn everything whites do...
How about this... If you want to have blacks hired, why don't you create some mega company and hire the way you feel? You see, its easier for a loser punk like you to just point fingers and cry... WAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAA The smart white and Chinese niggas who created a multi Billion dollar company won't hire blacks... WAAAAAAA How racist...
Then WAAAAAA the Indians who created whatever won't hire blacks... WAAAAA...
Then WAAAAAA the aliens from Mars created some great shit and won't hire blacks WAAAAA...
If you want blacks to be hired, why not get people together and do something instead of bitch like a pussy, then call anyone with a brain a cac....
Now what, pussy?
I made a previous post in this thread about this, having participated in the Google recruitment process a bit. Darrkman, so can you please breakdown how many of these Blacks and Hispanics have degrees from the TOP Universities in the world (which is where Google likes to hire from). Of the students that get in to these institutions, how many are scoring the highest marks? Then of those can you breakdown how many ACTUALLY WANT TO WORK FOR GOOGLE?
I think it's important to note that if you want to hire more blacks, one needs to make a real effort to do so. From my experiences with them, I don't believe they do go out of their way to hire blacks (unless it's for Google Africa). I think Google is about making money and doesn't give a shit... Does that make them inherently BAD? Or does it just make them a white company that looks out for itself? As always...
Also not sure about your reality, but in mine blacks are very underrepresented in Corporate law, Non-Retail Banking, PE, VC, top Corporate Finance positions.... So this isn't anything new...
For instance:
Corporate law (article 2 days ago) 1.9% of Corporate law partners are black, black associates are scarce
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05...ound-at-top-firms/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Private Equity: less than 1%
Investment Bankers: Somewhere around 2-3% are black, for Managing Directors really low
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Example?
I personally know people who do work at Google and the BS that they only take ivy league students is just that....bullshit. You dudes in here are trying so fucking hard to make it Black people's fault that you can't even step out and look for yourself. For example from LinkedIn and people working at Google that I PERSONALLY KNOW:
Boston College
University of Minn.
Ithaca College
University of Iowa
Howard University (I know here from my recruiting trips to Howard)
Syracuse Univ.
Here is a perfect example:
Jacqueline Berg - Head of Sales and Strategic Partnerships
Univ of Wisconsin Madison
BA in English
www.linkedin.com/pub/jacqueline-berg/0/166/339
Some of you dudes in here are fucking clueless with how Google works. Twice Google has spoken to me about a job. One I didn't get and the other I didn't want because it would of meant moving to Detroit.
So break down how Google works. B/C Not all my friends are trying to work for Google...
Again from my limited experience, you apply to work for Google and GOOGLE ITSELF tells you what kind of work it wants you to do. You will probably not do exactly what you want to do for Google, but they tell you what they think you'll be best at for them...
I just did my own Linkedin Search. This is what MY NETWORK popped up for people who do or have worked at Google--Beyond this list of 5 are the usual suspects of Ivy league schools. Apparently in Detroit the positions they are looking for are within: http://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/detroit/ Sales & Account Management AND Product & Customer Support:
(1637 People)
Stanford University
(1439)
University of California, Berkeley
(774)
Carnegie Mellon University
(676)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(588)
University of California, Los Angeles
MY NETWORK list matches this:
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And another thing, have we thought that b/c most Google jobs are in Mountainview California (largely White and Asian) many blacks self-select out of living in that area and want to be on the East Coast, and in the South?
Google has offices in other cities, but most of the gigs are on West Coast.
One final thing. You do realize that the top feeder schools for Google have small representations of blacks--if any! That's the UC schools in California
Google has offices in other cities, but most of the gigs are on West Coast.
One final thing. You do realize that the top feeder schools for Google have small representations of blacks--if any! That's the UC schools in California
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I know exactly how your are feeling. Same shit has happen to me. Recruiter one time stated he never tell people why they get turned down but he told me and he was pissed. He basically called it what it is, racism because my background and experience was perfect for the job. Thing was he knew I was black and the lady I was to interview with was black as well. It just happen the day of the interview she was out sick or something so I was interviewed by a young white woman and young white boy. I knew when I walked in I was not going to get the job by the looks on their faces. BS in Computer Science, BA in Mathematics and MS in Software Engineering and get played like I'm dumb as fuck.
I mean no harm but...
Are you delusional? They released stats screaming they don't have much in regards of diversity mainly blacks. They stated they don't like it.
Yet you are sitting here saying, there isn't a problem, and its just us who are clueless?
umm what? Hopefully I misunderstood your post.
Don't send your kid to a basketball, football, or soccer Camp this summer. Send them to a Summer STEM program.
http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Programs/STEM/
Google embeds engineers as professors at Howard University
Associated Press
Associated Press
MARTHA MENDOZA
May 3, 2015
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students including, from left, freshmen Lucretia Williams, Alanna Walton, and Christopher Hocutt, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students including, from left, freshmen Lucretia Williams, Alanna Walton, and Christopher Hocutt, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Howard University freshman Alanna Walton knew something was different about the professor teaching her introduction to computer science course.
First, there was her name: Professor Sabrina. She was an African American woman, kept office hours until 2 a.m. if that's what it took to see everyone, and had an additional title: Google In Residence.
"It was an awesome class," said Alanna who has already chosen her major at the Washington D.C.-based university: computer science.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum.
Today 35 percent of African Americans receiving computer science degrees come from those schools, but they don't make their way to Silicon Valley's top tech firms. Google is typical — about 1 percent of its technical staffers are black.
Last year a push by civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson prompted several dozen tech firms to release workforce diversity data which showed under-representation of African Americans, Latinos and women in the field.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
In response, businesses, universities and community leaders have launched initiatives aimed at diversifying their ranks, both ethnically and by gender. The Anita Borg Institute and the National Center for Women and Information Technology have partnered with many companies to support female engineers.
Facebook offers "Facebook University," an internship for low income minority college freshmen interested in computer science. Intel has committed $300 million over the next five years toward diversifying its workforce, while Apple has a $50 million partnership with nonprofits to support women and minority computer science majors.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, left, talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, left, talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Google decided to go to the source, sending a handful of software engineers to teach at Howard, Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, Fisk University in Nashville, and Spelman and Morehouse colleges in Atlanta.
They taught introductory courses, but they also trained students on everything from how to send a professional email to how to make it through a software engineering job interview, which can involve a lot of time solving coding questions at a white board.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
This summer, 30 of those students will be Google interns. And Howard University graduating senior Christopher Hocutt, 21, whose friends jokingly call him Mr. Google, will be starting at the company full-time.
Hocutt said the Google In Residence professors convinced him to apply.
"What they discovered was a lot of people weren't even applying to Google because we didn't believe we were skilled enough to do it," he said. "Once we realized we have the skills, we just needed mentorship to make our resume look good, get through the interview, have confidence to try."
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, hugs students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, hugs students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Google software engineer Sabrina Williams, who took a semester away from her Mountain View campus this year to mentor and teach at Howard, is thrilled to see her student becoming a colleague.
"I'm inspired," she said. "Change is slow, this is going to take time, but I think what's interesting about this program is that it's a different way of attacking the problem of lack of diversity in tech."
Fifteen years ago, Williams was the only female African American computer science major at Stanford University. "I kind of felt awkward so I kind of hid a lot," she said. "It was very difficult."
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
She said that while "teaching is hard" and the hours at Howard were grueling, she welcomed the opportunity to offer students an experience different from her own. This included taking female computer scientists aside early in the semester, telling them she was available for any questions, and encouraging them to support each other.
Legrand Burge, who chairs Howard University's computer science department, welcomes the temporary addition of Google engineers to his faculty.
"They're not academics but they have domain expertise that students could definitely learn a lot from," he said. "The word got out and it actually got a lot of students interested in computer science who didn't initially plan to study it."
Indeed, class sizes have doubled in intro courses. Williams had 70 students in one class; about 250 were taught so far this year by Google engineers at all five schools.
In the 1970s and 80s a similar program partnered the university with AT&T, Bell and Hewlett Packard, Burge said. This time, he said, Google is bringing a disruptive, Silicon Valley mentality to their campus.
"The issue with the East Coast and West Coast ecosystem, is that in the West there's a fail fast, fail often mentality," Burge said. "And there's a disconnect between academia, which does not have that try things out, dare to experiment, fail and learn about why you failed, come back and do better, culture."
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/google-embeds-engineers-professors-161909508--finance.html
Associated Press
Associated Press
MARTHA MENDOZA
May 3, 2015
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students including, from left, freshmen Lucretia Williams, Alanna Walton, and Christopher Hocutt, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students including, from left, freshmen Lucretia Williams, Alanna Walton, and Christopher Hocutt, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Howard University freshman Alanna Walton knew something was different about the professor teaching her introduction to computer science course.
First, there was her name: Professor Sabrina. She was an African American woman, kept office hours until 2 a.m. if that's what it took to see everyone, and had an additional title: Google In Residence.
"It was an awesome class," said Alanna who has already chosen her major at the Washington D.C.-based university: computer science.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum.
Today 35 percent of African Americans receiving computer science degrees come from those schools, but they don't make their way to Silicon Valley's top tech firms. Google is typical — about 1 percent of its technical staffers are black.
Last year a push by civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson prompted several dozen tech firms to release workforce diversity data which showed under-representation of African Americans, Latinos and women in the field.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
In response, businesses, universities and community leaders have launched initiatives aimed at diversifying their ranks, both ethnically and by gender. The Anita Borg Institute and the National Center for Women and Information Technology have partnered with many companies to support female engineers.
Facebook offers "Facebook University," an internship for low income minority college freshmen interested in computer science. Intel has committed $300 million over the next five years toward diversifying its workforce, while Apple has a $50 million partnership with nonprofits to support women and minority computer science majors.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, left, talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, left, talks with students during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Google decided to go to the source, sending a handful of software engineers to teach at Howard, Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, Fisk University in Nashville, and Spelman and Morehouse colleges in Atlanta.
They taught introductory courses, but they also trained students on everything from how to send a professional email to how to make it through a software engineering job interview, which can involve a lot of time solving coding questions at a white board.
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with freshman Alanna Walton during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
This summer, 30 of those students will be Google interns. And Howard University graduating senior Christopher Hocutt, 21, whose friends jokingly call him Mr. Google, will be starting at the company full-time.
Hocutt said the Google In Residence professors convinced him to apply.
"What they discovered was a lot of people weren't even applying to Google because we didn't believe we were skilled enough to do it," he said. "Once we realized we have the skills, we just needed mentorship to make our resume look good, get through the interview, have confidence to try."
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, hugs students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, hugs students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Google software engineer Sabrina Williams, who took a semester away from her Mountain View campus this year to mentor and teach at Howard, is thrilled to see her student becoming a colleague.
"I'm inspired," she said. "Change is slow, this is going to take time, but I think what's interesting about this program is that it's a different way of attacking the problem of lack of diversity in tech."
Fifteen years ago, Williams was the only female African American computer science major at Stanford University. "I kind of felt awkward so I kind of hid a lot," she said. "It was very difficult."
Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Google software engineer and Google In Residence Sabrina Williams, right, talks with students freshmen Lucretia Williams and Alanna Walton, during a Google Student Development class on Impostor Syndrome at Howard University in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
She said that while "teaching is hard" and the hours at Howard were grueling, she welcomed the opportunity to offer students an experience different from her own. This included taking female computer scientists aside early in the semester, telling them she was available for any questions, and encouraging them to support each other.
Legrand Burge, who chairs Howard University's computer science department, welcomes the temporary addition of Google engineers to his faculty.
"They're not academics but they have domain expertise that students could definitely learn a lot from," he said. "The word got out and it actually got a lot of students interested in computer science who didn't initially plan to study it."
Indeed, class sizes have doubled in intro courses. Williams had 70 students in one class; about 250 were taught so far this year by Google engineers at all five schools.
In the 1970s and 80s a similar program partnered the university with AT&T, Bell and Hewlett Packard, Burge said. This time, he said, Google is bringing a disruptive, Silicon Valley mentality to their campus.
"The issue with the East Coast and West Coast ecosystem, is that in the West there's a fail fast, fail often mentality," Burge said. "And there's a disconnect between academia, which does not have that try things out, dare to experiment, fail and learn about why you failed, come back and do better, culture."
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/google-embeds-engineers-professors-161909508--finance.html
Don't send your kid to a basketball, football, or soccer Camp this summer. Send them to a Summer STEM program.
http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Programs/STEM/
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http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=820829&highlight=stem
Why not both?
Don't send your kid to a basketball, football, or soccer Camp this summer. Send them to a Summer STEM program.
http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Programs/STEM/
This is true!!
I experienced this all thought out my career. It got to the point where I cant put the name of my school on my resume, I went to an HBCU. They see that and its on the next resume. Well educated and a shit load of credentials but the White girl in the office next to me just had to know some one!!
A White boy with my education and background gets to the be VP.
Because their family unit hasn't be socially destroyed like they destroyed the black family! Those fucker come over here are educated for free in their country and work for a lot less then the average American.
Their family value hasn't been destroyed.
but put a picture of of the final 4 and its nothing but black.
Because this society has convinced black kids the only road to success for you is to play ball or rap! Education is not for you!!
Unfortunately, Your experience isn't exclusive to the just the I.T sector.
Sent from Clayton County Department of Corrections using Pay Phone
Google for the most part is banned in China. The Chinese probably knew the shit Snowden was talking before he came out. They don't want to brag that they infiltrated and obtain info on their practices. Yet they hire Asians like there is no tomorrow.
They make up shit to get that spyware out of the country. The media portrays it as due to censorship reasons. For that reason American IT products are junk, I am not buying and enriching people that will turn around and collect info covertly.
My dream is being able to power up these devices without being spyed on.
They make up shit to get that spyware out of the country. The media portrays it as due to censorship reasons. For that reason American IT products are junk, I am not buying and enriching people that will turn around and collect info covertly.
My dream is being able to power up these devices without being spyed on.
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Yeah I don't want to automatically call racism. Are black candidates able to meet Google requirements. We could say the same thing about black people in hockey.
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