Post #19, if tech is not their thing, then they don’t have to work there. I never felt threatened by male and Asian, back when I was one out of many in high tech. However, I did notice some Asian males that came from a male dominated culture, not growing up in America, and some of them didnt show respect when they interviewed me, so I decided the place was not for me and walked out of the interview. That left them having to explain what happened to the HR manager. You can vote with your feet too.
Come to think about it, I did that with older white males who were American.
It’s for country’s sake, they need to have gender diversity. As it stands, only 25% of population is white male. If tech companies make their environment more conducive to female/minority wokers beyond a few ultra(?) female or minority workers, they will have a larger pool of talent to hire from, three times larger.
Post #21, what makes you think they haven’t not widen the search. They do go to universities to recruit and there are more females than males at most universities. They need to find qualify people that suit their needs regardless of gender.
I think base on the last census, 77% are white, so half of that would be white male. The number is more like 36%.
post #22, I don’t think what I am trying to say is that difficult to understand. It won’t do any good if they go and look for talents if talents themselves already signed out of the field. One would first have to encourage them to go in the field. Changing work environment can only help.
For all my years on CC I’ve heard or read the most bashing for students who go into engineering or STEM fields so I think I can see where talents are signed out.
If the work environment of these places are attractive, women and minority will gravitate toward it, so more likely they will choose the tech field.
My friend’s daughter got a job at Google right after graduating from SF state. She is not in a stem field, but loves her job.
I remember back in the day, before Microsoft and Google and who knows what else, when Hewlett Packard was the place to work, especially if you were female or a POC. One woman chose to work there after getting the same idiotic questions at interview after interview. Instead, HP gave everyone a quick test, and advanced those who did well. She wanted to rise on merit and not be falsely judged for being a female POC, quite a rarity back then, so she chose HP.
Even now, some companies can be bad to even outright hostile to some of their employees. Zillow has had lawsuits by women and I know someone who left Under Armour because of sexual harassment. News gets around.
One problem is everyone acts like the only jobs at these places are engineering jobs. There are recruiting, marketing, and other types of positions. Silicon Valley, in general, needs to up its game. That’s my belief, it ain’t changing, so for the naysayers, we need to agree to disagree. 
I have two friends, one daughter got a job at FB, the other at Google and they’ve already talked about (within one year) the lack of upward mobility in general that is pretty much known by the women (I’m not talking engineering, so cannot attest to that). They both said sooner or later they will most probably jump ship.
If my daughter ever got an entry job in Silicon Valley, at some point I suspect it would be the same thing. It just doesn’t seem woman-friendly. There’s a lot of that latent frat attitude. Sort of like the rock star syndrome on a lower level.
I guess having these outreach groups on campus is at least acknowledging the problem.
These are software or engineering companies, so most likely they will hire the majority of the people for software jobs or engineering jobs. No surprise there.
I think it depends on the degree too. If you have an MBA you get a good chance of moving up into marketing positions or project manager type of position. For tech position, you probably have to compete with people with Masters and PhDs. One of my old boss who has a PhD in engineering from Stanford and he is a VP or higher at Google, last time I checked. The other guy who was at my level at one company and he has a Masters level, he is director now at Google.
So because of this thread I went and look at Google careers page. They have 3 main groups. Build, Sell, Do things group. So the engineers/computer scientist would fall under the Build group, the MBA and business people would fall under the Sell group, and if you are communications major you would fall under the Do group.
Here is one example of such job.
https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#t=sq&q=j&jc=MARKETING
I don’t think for the above job there would be a lot of room for mobility. So if this a complaint about that type of job than I understand.
How many women are applying to these tech companies in the first place?
I recently went to orientation at my college and there was a moment where all the majors would group up and go to a certain class to learn more about their field of study. I was with the Computer Science majors. When we all met at the class, there were 2-3 female students out of 20-25.
Post #31, you must go to small school?
@DrGoogle, undergraduate enrollment of 31,670.
Not all of the Computer Science majors were packed into that single class.
Ok I understand now. A class of 20-25 people there is about 10% are females.
Re: women in tech employment
My anecdotal observation is that there are not many non immigrant women in tech jobs - women are mainly immigrants to a much greater extent than men.
From LinkedIn for kid #2, I see children from immigrants are in tech. The Eastern European kids, Indian, Chinese, Israeli, and other small Asian countries.
My kid know one white kid whose father is a doctor, non immigrant, but she is tech. Again anecdotal observation only.
"There aren’t many women and minorities in CS "
-Actually there are. IT departments are heavier on the female side.
CS has nothing to do with the social media. Women are busy with the real life, many men just sit on the couch browsing the internet. This is not an attractive entertainment option to many women, who prefer to be with kids. I certainly always did. As kids are out of house for a long time, I simply think of internet browsing as boring, I never got the habit. And I am in CS, have been in IT for few decades and, again, CS background has absolutely nothing to do with being in social media. I just refuse to be part of “collective”, I prefer to stay totally disconnected, I mean, nobody can call me on my iPhone, it is turned off and is in my car. I just come to CC when I do not have any other options to fill my time.
Same here! I saw the title of the thread and thought, *Wait. FB seems overwhelmingly white and female to me./i