What are some tech companies with good IC diversity? Joined FB very recently and it seems like every team is all Chinese internationals. Nothing against them as people, but many tend to stick together and have trouble communicating effectively. Although I sympathize with their difficulties it makes it harder to get work done and makes for a less welcoming work environment.
I haven’t seen much diversity in any of the places I’ve worked yet. They’ve called it diversity, but in my experience it’s more like the Stanford clone factory just started making the same clones in different colors.
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Not even Google?
I feel non-FAANG places have more diversity comparing to FAANG places. Hey, but you got to take a paycut. :P
Go to startups. Mostly white people since they don't need to worry about work visa...
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From what I've seen, Opendoor, Nuro, and Airbnb (RIP) seem to be like this as well, at least for teams I was considering. Do you have any suggestions for startups that combine a good culture with close to FAANG level pay, or does that not really exist?
Just echoing what others have said. FAANG attracts mostly Chinese and Indian internationals. Great for the most part but sometimes they can be tone-deaf regarding race relations, tend to clump together, or even just don't have much to click with in terms of American culture and interest. It's just awkward as an American of any color and at least at Amazon, the teams that were mostly Indian were the ones that tended to have the worst wlb and most politics. Non-FAANG has been great for culture, diversity, working with other Americans but pay sucks and the engineering bar is lower. I loved my coworkers though and still talk to more non-FAANG ex-coworkers than FAANG. My gameplan is to just find the American niche within FAANG from now on. Joining Google soonish so hopefully I can get that there.
If you think FB is all Chinese internationals you’re mistaken. There are a lot of Indian internationals too. 😉
It's one or the other. Most teams I've seen (80%) are practically full Chinese save for a single engineer. A couple others have been basically full Indian.
Mine was exactly 50-50 when I joined, plus Indian EM and skip. Lol 🤷♀️