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My understanding is that Google seems hypocritical. What about ageism?
I have worked in Information Technology as a software tester for 18 years.
When I relocated from Florida to Arizona last spring, I did an aggressive job
search. Phoenix was great for IT jobs.
But I stayed away from Silicon Valley. The common knowledge in the industry
is that the startups or young companies in Silicon Valley generally exhibit
ageism. Anyone (white, black, female, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, etc), over 30
pretty much is discriminated against. The impression I have is that applying for
a job in Silicon Valley is a waste of time for IT in many cases for those 30+ in age.
Exceptions may be on the "hardware" side of engineering: materials science,
mechanical, civil, infrastructure, etc. But software job searches seem like a waste
of time for anyone over 30 in Silicon Valley - especially at Google. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...ite/479468001/
The movie "The Internship" blatantly made a mockery of Generation X men going into IT at Google.
In real life, it's like that too.
How should I know? Big corporations get sued all the time for money and doesn't mean they are guilty.
The fact of the life is that no sane business would hire men if women can do the same job for less. Would you?
I provided a link to the lawsuit earlier in the thread. They agreed to share employment records in exchange for government business. A routine audit revealed the pay gap.
I'd also ask anybody who is outraged over his firing what they think about Colin Kapernick?
I think that, like most Americans, he's a dumbass who believes whatever the mass media say. They fed him a bogus narrative, and he reacted in a way that would be fine with me if the narrative were true. There was and is no problem with cops (and impliedly white cops) shooting black people without justification. There was and is a problem with cops (of all races) shooting people of all races without justification.
The truth -- as Harvard professor Roland Fryer found -- is that whites, not blacks are disproportionately the victims of police shootings. Fryer, a black man, called it the most surprising result of his career. The New York Times reported:
Quote:
In shootings in these 10 cities [Dallas, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, some Florida cities/counties, etc.] involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use of lethal force.
Be that as it may, there is surely a racial undercurrent in the treatment of Kaepernick. But my wife is calling, so I won't be able to get into it further just now.
Women are paid less because they work less not because they are women!
If women are paid less for doing the same job, no sane business would hire men!
More nonsense. This is what I've observed from my kid and her friends, all software engineers. They did bargain hard enough. Settled too soon. Even as a mom, I noticed that. But they are young kids just graduated from college. They didn't know how to negotiate yet. What do you mean by work less?
The argument goes that as a population, women's wages are lower because they take time off to have children and/or reduce their work hours to raise children. It's not a particularly good argument for professional white collar jobs like Google, however.
Who knows but maybe the new female engineers will be "lean in" like Sheryl Sandberg.
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