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Imagine that someone decides recruiting needs a budget cut and shrinks the travel budget a bit. Managers shift to local career fairs instead. No one notices the complete lack of bay area HBCUs and a couple years down the road the pipeline is filled with people from Stanford with internships and internal recommendations competing against people from HBCUs that don't have either of them. One of these populations will look vastly more qualified on paper.


Google should be free to do that if they want.

Companies shouldn't be expected to solve every problem in society, and certainly not social issues.


I'm not describing some hypothetical here. This was the main way employment discrimination worked after the passage of the EEOA.


The bay area tech scene was built on Stanford grads wanting to stay in the area and buying cheap farm land to start businesses.




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