Just wanted to call out this excerpt from the article - the author makes an extremely good point:
> I don’t want this post to be about The Solutions™ but here’s one for your noggin; there is this a significant intersection between career changers/developers coming from non traditional backgrounds (i.e. people with no CS degree) and minorities. Put your money where your fucking mouths are and hire these people. Every summer countless tech companies of all sizes run internship programs, would it be a stretch to run an apprenticeship program of the same length for non traditional applicants?
People of color often don't have the cultural or economic incentive (or capability) to engage in STEM roles for many reasons (especially in the United States), so an emphasis on bringing in people from _non-traditional backgrounds_ can have a real, quantifiable impact on workplace diversity.
> I don’t want this post to be about The Solutions™ but here’s one for your noggin; there is this a significant intersection between career changers/developers coming from non traditional backgrounds (i.e. people with no CS degree) and minorities. Put your money where your fucking mouths are and hire these people. Every summer countless tech companies of all sizes run internship programs, would it be a stretch to run an apprenticeship program of the same length for non traditional applicants?
People of color often don't have the cultural or economic incentive (or capability) to engage in STEM roles for many reasons (especially in the United States), so an emphasis on bringing in people from _non-traditional backgrounds_ can have a real, quantifiable impact on workplace diversity.