Following US layoffs, we should push for a transparent breakdown of the company's demographic data before and after the cuts.
From what I've noticed anecdotally in certain US teams, particularly where a specific demographic is concentrated, non-group employees seemed to bear a heavier brunt of the layoffs. To be fair, this is just my personal impression and I don't have hard data to back it up as a proven fact.
That said, once things settle down, it would be valuable to request concrete numbers to see if there is a statistically significant difference in the racial composition between the overall US workforce and those actually laid off in the US. Moving forward, keeping this data transparent is something we should advocate for.
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@ae mine doesn’t need bachelors
@jb ...and of course Jensen as a major leader.
@ha I beg to differ. THe country that is gorging on 70% of H1B's does not have a history of innovation, despite being drawn towards STEM. My STEM textbooks all the way through Master's had a miniscule number of South Asian inventor names cited even compared to Denmark and Sweden which typically had 1/100 of tbe population of South Asia. South Asian engineers participate in AI in large numbers but they were neither pioneers nor are they current day leaders (Alexandr Wang, Amodei, Musk, Altman) to name a few).
@hb it is not about layoffs given that most large tech companies are bloated anyway. Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, years before Claude became a product and before AI was advertised as a jobs destroyer.
The 80/20 rule has been around for ages...20% of the people do 80% of the work. By keeping the employees that pledged to be "hard core" Musk wasn't taking much risk; X functions better than ever. Gutting most of useless HR was an added bonus.
@e9 If layoffs are sign of “receding dominance” ... Musk laid off 80% staff at Twitter. The current upheaval across tech industry is triggered mainly by the Gen AI bo-m, in which America dominates. The bo-m took off after a paper titled “Attention is All You Need” was published, changing the large language model game. Multiple authors, but check what the paper is known mainly as. Maybe you need to blame it for the “receding dominance” of the older tech business.
@e9 that’s because they do software and software is not patentable. Other demographics do hardware and get the invention awards.
@a5 to be fair the problem is with the country that is gourging on 70% of the H1B's. This country has an abysmal record of invention despite historically possessing over 20% of the world's population. Total H1B's from this country outnumber South Africa at a rate of probably greater than10,000 to 1 and not one of them have contributed 1/50th of what Musk has. America's technology dominance has receded ever since the H1B was conceived.
@aa
Most engineering jobs in qualcomm does not need masters
Qualcomm loves to hire international masters students as they are much cheaper and indentured servile visa work force.
These engineers wait 10 plus years for their green card and live in constant fear of losing job hence their visa status
These visa workers are indeed slave to the visa system but companies love these cheaper workers
One can't blame the companies
All the entry level jobs are outsourced to other countries. Very few jobs are opened in USA.
Qualcomm laid off 50% employees in Bay Area and USA, and transferred or outsourced all these jobs to Hyderabad and Chennai.
Asian teams usually work on maintenance of existing products but not new innovation and out of this world products.
Qualcomm recruits mainly Master’s and mostly international students do Masters. Americans are more likely doing a job right after Bachelor’s. That’s the reason why the hiring appears skewed. If Qualcomm stops preferring Master’s students, the situation would fix itself
Form an employee union and sue QCOM and get all the details !!
Most of the CEOs and politicians want to get rich and outsource everything from this country. GREED !! It has already impacted many sectors and talent in USA.
Only few in current administration wants jobs and manufacturing back in USA.
Don't support BRICS countries and bring back all the jobs. World trade is unfair trade.
Most tech companies are taken over by people from 2 countries
And sadly they are not doing a good job
Nale one thing which the whole humanity is using arising from these countries?