As I mentioned in a previous comment, I lived-and-worked in "the Valley" during the late-'80s/early-'90s (high-tech). Speaking only of white Americans (there were NO blacks in high-tech, and the few Hispanics I saw were field-techs), there were -- increasingly -- more with BS degrees in CompSci/EE *who went on for MBAs* and became Projec…
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I lived-and-worked in "the Valley" during the late-'80s/early-'90s (high-tech). Speaking only of white Americans (there were NO blacks in high-tech, and the few Hispanics I saw were field-techs), there were -- increasingly -- more with BS degrees in CompSci/EE *who went on for MBAs* and became Project Managers (not *Leads*... Managers). Take that for what it's worth... and see if the trend has changed in the past 30 years (i.e., lessened, rather than increased).
My SIL was married to a black guy (Jamaican) and the two of them set up part of a major bank's internet backbone. there might have been fewer, but there were blacks in the biz in the day as well. My takeaway is that there used to be more small, responsive 'mom and pops' doing this in the day as opposed to monoliths.
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I lived-and-worked in "the Valley" during the late-'80s/early-'90s (high-tech). Speaking only of white Americans (there were NO blacks in high-tech, and the few Hispanics I saw were field-techs), there were -- increasingly -- more with BS degrees in CompSci/EE *who went on for MBAs* and became Project Managers (not *Leads*... Managers). Take that for what it's worth... and see if the trend has changed in the past 30 years (i.e., lessened, rather than increased).
I have known a couple of black people in tech here in San Francisco.
My SIL was married to a black guy (Jamaican) and the two of them set up part of a major bank's internet backbone. there might have been fewer, but there were blacks in the biz in the day as well. My takeaway is that there used to be more small, responsive 'mom and pops' doing this in the day as opposed to monoliths.
There are probably more black tech workers in parts of the country other than California too.