5/29/2023 0 Comments Invisor atlantwClaire Shorall, volunteer AP CS teacher and former manager of CS at Oakland Unified School District That being said, Oakland Unified School District now offers computer science in middle school and ninth grade. ![]() Here’s the thing about pipelines: When you come from MIT or Stanford or Yale or Harvard, you have people within your network who can tell you about the unique hiring process at places like Google. MIT has had a course on how to prepare for them. But if you don’t go to those schools, you have no idea what you’re going into, particularly if you’re a person of color, because you don’t have people in your network who have done it, or even tried. I was a computer science major at UC Irvine. After I had been working for a while, I got a call from Google asking me to interview for a job, and I prepared by studying brain teasers. It wasn’t until later, after I ran into a recruiter who was really the first person in Silicon Valley to be in my corner, that I learned how to prepare. She explained that Google’s interviewing process is rooted in first- and second-year CS principles. Most of my experience up to that point hadn’t involved any of that stuff. I had to go back to the textbooks and literally dust them off. You have to work two to three times as hard as a nonblack person to get as far in your career. In the black community, that’s understood as the black tax. ![]() This is something that fathers teach their sons. Now it’s about educating people in Silicon Valley about what it means to come from a diverse background, to struggle and ultimately succeed. ![]() If you want to have Black History Month programming, who are you going to reach out to? If a diverse school group comes in, who do you want them to see? The few black people around.
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