Sixteen years in Silicon Valley here.
- In 2015, for two openings I had, 0% of resumes were from caucasians.
- In 2015, for two openings I had, 0% of resumes were from people of Chinese descent.
- In 2015, for two openings I had, 100% of the openings were filled with Masters graduates.
A female engineering friend of mine told me that females aren’t aware that their male counterparts have caught up intellectually by the college level. Most females are stunned that they are no longer at the top of their class, and are equally stunned that their male counterparts have in most cases surpassed their intellect. The male takes much longer for his intellect to kick in. Yeah software engineering jobs pay extremely well, but the competition is brutal as the US attracts the top engineering talent the world over. Cisco’s elite program in 2008 was intended to hire Masters graduates from only 8 select schools, with a minimum GPA of 3.9. Nearly 90+ percent of those hires were Indian and Chinese, and I’d guess 80% of them were males.