Well, one of the arguments for increased diversity in tech is, basically, all the big players have already optimized their competition for the latest batch of dudely-nerdbros exiting Stanford and MIT, and so to win the talent game you better figure out how to develop and tap the latent talent in those who avoid compsci cuz racism/sexism.
Personally, I suspect there is some truth to this. There will always be a need for that person who lives-eats-drinks-sleeps software and math, and who got serious in high school and made it through the elite tech programs. Yeah, that is serious talent and you want it. But there are only so many of those folks.
If you can also get the other folks, who maybe started later or whatever, and get them excited and learning, and wanting to work for you, you win!
Of course, in the end this is empirical. I hope it turns out true. We’ll see.
dudely-nerdbros?? Guess they need to hire some more femme-geekchicks to balance things out :)
This whole subject is a real headscratcher to be honest. Computer Science has far lower entrance requirements than law, medicine, or being a vet. There is a huge push to get more women into STEM, but not into finance, even though Wall Street seems very good at delivering high paying jobs to men.
And yeah, all the racism throughout silicon valley, where the most common first names are Sunil and Dev and the most common last names are Wang and Li.
Seriously, dudely-nerdbros?? Is that supposed to be a synonym for “men”, or some weird category of neckbeard geeks who also hit the gym and play rugby?