Ethnic Demographics of Team

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When I worked on the tech side of banking, I found that 70% of the team members were Indian male. Does this hold true for your software teams? I am just curious why this happens. Why not have more women and URM?

19g618l48lv60o · Accepted Answer

I would stay away from teams that are not diverse. This means that they could be filling teams with H1Bs with atrocious work hours. H1Bs are usually chained to the company and can't change companies neither quickly or easily.

propergorenje · Answer

I guess it depends. I am from Eastern Europe and I remember visiting conferences for BAs before covid. Most of the participants were ladies :) I don’t have a lot of experience working with teams in India, though.

qwertyCoder · Answer

I was curious about this. Apparently there's government data for this and you can see that asian americans (includes both indians and chinese) makes up about 30-40% of industry in bay area at least:

- https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/eeoc/statistics/reports/hightech/images/image009.png
- https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech#:~:text=Compared%20to%20overall%20private%20industry,percent%20to%208%20percent)%2C%20and

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