Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs

http://www.siliconvalley.com/the-valley/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dominate-silicon-valley-tech-jobs

by Flopsy • 14 years ago

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revelation• 14 years ago

Of course a culture that emphasizes education leads to people from said culture to eventually take a majority share in jobs requiring high levels of education.

There are of course secondary effects. If you are a highly talented person in China today, and your parents have the means, you will try and go to an American college.

Volpe2• 14 years ago

Or an Australian, UK, Canadian, New Zealand, French, Italian, etc College. Remember the US isn't the only country in the world. Nor is it the attractive place it once was.

w1ntermute• 14 years ago

Uh, I'm sure your country is a wonderful place with some great colleges and companies, but the US is by far the first choice for anyone from Asia looking to migrate to or study in the West. This phenomenon has only increased with the rise of the tech industry.

guylhem• 14 years ago

What is the point of this blatantly racist content of this populistic article essentially advocating discrimination (oops - I mean 'equal opportunity') over skills and productivity ??

Some examples: "(companies) import labor from overseas"

(...) "How do you market your products and services to people you don't understand"

(...) "Berkeley's College of Engineering, which now has an associate dean of 'Equity and Inclusion.'"

I love to say that facts know no ethnicity.

Here I'd say that some people are getting their lunch eaten by other people, and guess what - it's not the other's fault.

Maybe, just maybe, those who are getting their lunch eaten are just sitting on their asses, but are not working hard enough, and should work just a little more instead of whining and complaining how unfair life is.

Nobody owes anything to whiners.

There's absolutely no justification why some people from some ethnicity or some country should be "given the right" (by whom??) to work less than others, whose only fault was not winning the birth lottery, and are now making it up through hard work and dedication.

fourstar• 14 years ago

If you have the proper skills, I couldn't care less what race you are in this industry.

xenophanes• 14 years ago

I'm white and I can get work. Maybe the other whites who have trouble should try being as skilled/awesome/smart/responsible/etc as me, or as their asian competitors.

kiskis• 14 years ago

relevant: http://memegenerator.net/instance/26642605

robryan• 14 years ago

H1B1 is still fairly restrictive also, if those requirements were loosened these same people would have even more competition.

It is a global economy now, people can't just assume that they just need to be good enough against the traditional demographics. You don't really hear of people on here that are really dedicated with what they do struggling to find a decent paying tech position.

sami36• 14 years ago

Racist And idiotic. WTF is that headline supposed to mean. Why don't we enshrine in the constitution job quotas that must mimic demographic composition. ie "you're a 50 people company, you need 5 Blacks, 8 Latinos, 2 Asians, 2 other,26 women 1 lesbian, 22 white males, 4 of whom are gays, & a Rastafarian."

ucee054• 14 years ago

It sure looked to me like Asians already dominated Silicon Valley when I was there 10 years ago.

venus• 14 years ago

It would be nice if we had the linguistic tools to be able to talk about developments like this without using words like "race". Race, IMO, has little to do with it - it's all about culture, and asians, especially first and second generation immigrants, tend to have a far stronger academic achievement/science study cultural expectation than other common cultures. There are exceptions, of course, on either side, but I don't think anyone could argue with the general trend.

And so the numbers play out exactly as one would expect. I'm not in San Fran but I can tell you the situation is essentially the same here in Sydney. I have been to meetings with startups where everyone but me is asian! The idea of working in high-tech, especially in startups, as a career seems to have been legitimised in the "asian consciousness" over the last decade and, well, here they are.

I think it's great. More meat for the grinder, and if the alpha Chinese are showing up it means that computer programming can finally be considered a prestigious career in the popular reckoning. How far we nerds have come.

chubot• 14 years ago

What is weird to me as a Chinese-American is that I've been in Silicon Valley for over 10 years, and somehow managed to avoid all the other Asians.

When I worked at EA I was the only Asian on my team. Everyone was white American or European (no South Asians either). And at Google I spent 5 years on my first 2 teams, everybody was white, except for one Chinese guy on the first team and one Korean guy on the second (neither were Asian-American). This feels like roughly a 95/5 ratio, not 50/50. On my current team there are more Asians from abroad, but few Asian-Americans.

Possibly I think there are more Asians in San Jose in tech (the article is from a San Jose paper) than Asians in SF in tech (although of course there are many Asians in SF).

Also I will generalize blatantly and say that Asians don't work on games, open source, and systems programming as much.

bcoates• 14 years ago

Linked pairs of pie charts are a remarkably uninformative way of showing time-series information.

Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs

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