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I messaged with a guy at Microsoft and he described a culture among software engineers that accepted the fact that black employees in their division were rarely able to do high-level work but this wasn't supposed to be talked about. It was a loss the company was willing to bear.
He told me that typically, after they've shown themselves to lack ability, they're just given low-level or busy work to do, which seems to be fine with the black employees involved. The rare black employee who shows himself to be competent is almost immediately promoted.
I wrote a thread about my conversations with this guy a few years back on a different (now deleted) Twitter account. I found a Word doc of it, and here are some copy and pasted snippets:
[THREAD]
1/ An employee at Microsoft has been telling me some interesting things about theβ¦
[THREAD]
1/ An employee at Microsoft has been telling me some interesting things about theβ¦
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