Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities

redletterdave writes: According to a blog post from Gregg Pollack, CEO of the Code School, Google is paying for three free months for any women and minorities interested in tech to expand their skills. The offer is part of Google's $50 million "Made With Code" initiative, which aims to help close the gender gap in tech. While Google is also offering the same vouchers to the women in attendance at its annual I/O developers conference this week, the search giant has released an online application that's available to women everywhere. Google says its available vouchers for women number in the "thousands."

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You still won't get a job in my field

[CQDX]

If you are woman or minority that got into tech through Codeschool and the like, you won't be working in my shop. We only hire people with real CS and engineering degrees that have done their time learning more than the web language|framework flavor or the month.

Re:A lot of ugly little comments

[CronoCloud]

Look, I understand how you feel, and posted similar things in the other recent discussions on this...but all you'll get is a bunch of overprivileged twats working together to flame you to oblivion and pulling out various "it isn't a problem" "It's not my problem" or "citation needed" on you.

They simply don't understand that they've been privileged, they don't see their lives as that way. They have no experience dealing with people who aren't like them. It's like how Google and Facebook is full of ivy leaguers, or how there seems to be a fairly significatn number of aspie-ish guys with beards in open source. They hire/work with others like themselves. To them it's not discrimination it's just that "These other people whose backgrounds are like mine and who look like me are the best for the job.."

It's bigotry wearing a respectable suit and tie, the hardest kind to fight.