Facebook did not hire Black employees because they were not a 'culture fit,' report says

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Do you think these white people know the difference between an African American and a Ghanaian immigrant's American kid?


Black people are being implicitly kept out, but not cause of what most of y'all are talking about. "Qualification" in your head means they asked for 4 years and my resume says 4 years. Qualification in their head means passing the tech interview i.e. knowing the data structures, algorithms and CS problems. It's not reflective of day to day work and they'll easily reject you for even minor mistakes. But that's the game.

Man please, it goes faaaar beyond just cracking interviews. If it was all it took then I'd be eating good now cause I can implement algorithms and data structures in my sleep and I still get rejected for job roles by companies who hired mediocre to below average cacs I used to tutor in college.

Cultural fit was never about technical competence

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the qualifications don't matter

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Threads like this should be stickied. This is proof all the "education" talk is bullshyt.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Threads like this should be stickied. This is proof all the "education" talk is bullshyt.

(Insert always has been meme here)

 

[invalid]

I said this before but y'all in this thread acting like the women that call into Kevin Samuels mad your credentials didn't get you what you wanted.

You've been lied to your whole lives, told that if you're qualified, you'll get a high value job. No. You get a high value job by being a cultural fit, however arbitrary a company defines it.

That's the game, cultural fit, not credentials gets you the job. Now y'all upset, like the women, and either don't want to play the game (which is fine) or want the whole system overturned. The system is not going to be overturned. Just like all women who have credentials are not going to get a high value man, most brehs with credentials are not going to get a high value job.

Play the game cause that's what it is or go find a company that's on your level (not high value), or continue to wine like @The Hon. Stringer Bell

 

[Batsute]

Double post

 

[Batsute]

I said this before but y'all in this thread acting like the women that call into Kevin Samuels mad your credentials didn't get you what you wanted.

You've been lied to your whole lives, told that if you're qualified, you'll get a high value job. No. You get a high value job by being a cultural fit, however arbitrary a company defines it.

That's the game, cultural fit, not credentials gets you the job. Now y'all upset, like the women, and either don't want to play the game (which is fine) or want the whole system overturned. The system is not going to be overturned. Just like all women who have credentials are not going to get a high value man, most brehs with credentials are not going to get a high value job.

Play the game cause that's what it is or go find a company that's on your level (not high value), or continue to wine like @The Hon. Stringer Bell

I got friends at some of the largest tech companies in the world and they’ve told me multiple time what they hire for.

1. Do you fit a diversity narrative that they can shill, a regular breh ain’t enough
2. Domain Knowledge, I’ve been told by these same friends that if you know AWS or Azure that’s it, those people are missing key leadership and communication skills
3. Culture doesn’t matter once you’re in legit scumbags in the industry

Hell one friend told me an ex college football player & hardcore baptist was trying to get his MBA pulled a 530 on his GMAT but got into fukkin Harvard. What made that breh stand out other than being a stereotype.

 

[thekingsmen]

Big Tech been playing black folks. They want you to support censorship and labeling everyone racist, bigot while they don't hire black folks.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

I've made several threads on this and people like @the bossman @patscorpio @Obreh Winfrey and others have said it was just me

Even @The Hon. Stringer Bell can attest

Could yall speak more about it?

One of Peter Thiel's quotes on company culture from his CS183 class at Stanford

Not Peter. How racist is that? As opposed to having IPAs at lunch and explaining what that is? To a hooper, playing along. Seem they need to be sued and the settlements need to be larger.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Just get the lawsuits going. They don't learn until their ass is in court.

THIS. Run their pockets.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Culture fit meaning your black ass is not welcome

That seems inherently racist and that should be changed to all races welcome, not just a few token groups.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

You get it.

But nikkas will still scratch and claw to be included in spaces they aren’t wanted, rather than building their own.

Then you open the door for all

Then they want to kick you

How about, both! Work where you want, respectfully, and build businesses.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Culture fit meaning your black ass is not welcome

That's racist
All need to be welcome

As a breh in tech, this is 100% accurate. Too many interviews where once I met the cac director, I would be deemed "Not a right fit".

Did you sue? When are you suing?

SUPER right wing

Would get along and should that only be what anyone gets along with?

People like to work with those that look like them and act like them. Look how black people are portrayed in the media... is it really a surprise.

But on the flip side imagine a floppy haired white nerd came to your place of work that's majority black people... you'd be like and then proceed to hire that black person who you liked and listens to the same music and goes to the same spots as you... Humanbeings will be humanbeings. I dont get upset at shyt like this.

Just move on and be great somewhere else. Its their loss at the end of the day.

But if you don't hire that guy, he going to sue.
Work is more than just getting along with people and being besties, it is about able to have relection of community and train employees within the community to be part of something.

Not just whites, because that's so racist!

"Culturally fit" = Acting white.

Lol while looking down on black and brown? That doesn't sound like culturally fit

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

shyt like this is why black people are fukked up in the game business wise.

People like this pull ALL the strings...














Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM "the true racists"

Exclusive: Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM "the true racists"

Courtenay Brown

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

A notable venture capitalist and board member at the public company behind iconic brands like The North Face and Timberland was dismissive of racism in the U.S. and called Black Lives Matter "the true racists," according to emails obtained by Axios.

Details: Veronica Wu was a co-lead on a fund that it once described as the largest pool of money dedicated to seed startups. She's also on the board of VF Corporation, one of the world's biggest apparel companies.

• A spokesperson for VF Corp. declined to comment and would not comment on Wu’s behalf. Wu did not respond to emails.

Background: Wu was elected to VF Corp.’s board in 2019.

• At the time, she was a managing partner at Hone Capital, a U.S. venture arm of China Science and Merchants Investment Management Group (also known as CSC Group).
• Wu was previously a co-lead on a CSC Upshot fund, created in 2015 to invest in companies on fundraising platform AngelList. At the time, the companies said it was the biggest-ever dedicated to seed stage funding.

In June 2020, an office manager at Hone Capital notified Wu that the firm would honor Juneteenth as a company holiday, according to email exchanges reviewed by Axios.

• Wu responded that she didn’t know about the holiday, which commemorates when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their emancipation.
• After the office manager explained that — and noted other companies were honoring the day because of the country’s renewed focus on racism in the wake of George Floyd’s murder — Wu said she was “particularly not supportive.”
• “I don’t believe in Black Lives Matter. If anything I think they are the true racists trying to stir up things to make this country going [sic] to socialism or even communism potentially,” Wu wrote in part.
• Wu also said because the company was owned by CSC Group, the decision about making the day a company holiday wasn’t theirs to make.

The latest: VF Corp. got wind of this email exchange, investigated its contents and found them to be legitimate earlier this year, a source familiar with the matter tells Axios.

• Wu was not removed from the board. Among the committees she serves on as a member, one traditionally recruits potential board members and reviews executives for top management roles.

Wu's email was not the first time she expressed similar comments while at Hone Capital — which touts a "zero-tolerance policy for ... discrimination" on its website — one of the firm's former employees alleges.

• “She would say 'the reason you don't see African Americans in tech is because they're lazy and don't work,’” they said.
• Black people are underrepresented in Silicon Valley because of systemic barriers to entry. Three percent of venture capital investment partner positions were held by Blacks in 2020, according to a survey by The National Venture Capital Association. And just 1.2% of all venture funding went to Black startup entrepreneurs in the first half of this year, per Crunchbase.
• Axios' phone calls to the number listed on Hone’s website were not returned.

Of note: Wu was at Hone until August of last year, per her LinkedIn profile. She is on a global advisory board at CapGemini, a publicly traded technology consulting firm. CapGemini did not respond to Axios' request for comment.

• She also currently lists herself as the founder and managing partner of First Bight Ventures, which invests in early-stage synthetic biology companies.

The bottom line: Corporations en masse rushed to speak out against racism as they faced increasing pressure to respond to social issues. It has raised questions about whether what companies do about racism down the line would be as vigorous as their comments.

• VF Corp. — which owns a dozen household brand names including Supreme and Jansport — was among the corporations that released statements about their commitment to antiracism after Floyd was killed.
• “Racism is not welcome at VF Corporation. It never has been and never will be,” CEO Steve Rendle said last June.
• "[W]hile we as a company can’t create a vaccine to eradicate racism from our planet, we can do our part to lead with purpose, inspire others with our actions, break down racial and ethnic barriers and be part of the solution.”