Silicon Valley s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers Quillette

There are a few reasons why Facebook and Google software engineers are so ignored and underpaid. First of all, Asian software engineers are often imported from other countries China, in particular through the H1-B Visa application process, which mandates that they must be sponsored by a US employer. The employer can revoke the sponsorship if and when it feels like it, and then the worker must get another job or leave the country. This means that companies such as Facebook and Google have leverage over their engineers, and can artificially depress their value (as well as the value of other people who work in the field). Secondly, Silicon Valley PR and business execs effectively exploit Asian stereotypes that present Asian software engineers as inherently disposed toward back-office work the same stereotypes that Harvard University used to mark down Asian applicants on positive personality, courage, sociability, and other subjective measures.

via quillette.com

It’s really the Asians’ fault, you see, for making themselves so easy to discriminate against (/satire).