The Offline Report

The conventional wisdom may hold, but data and anecdotes suggest otherwise: ageism was worse in the San Francisco Bay Area tech sector, and many job sectors, than those of Los Angeles as recently as 2016. One cause of fewer tech workers over 30 in San Francisco could be expensive housing, but age discrimination in hiring occurs, insiders report. "I mean at Kleiner we had this anti-harassment training session, and during that whole time, the partners kept asking 'well if we want to hire somebody who is 26 years old what do we do?'" Venture capitalist Ellen Pao told a San Francisco audience last fall , that her former employer Kleiner Perkins sought legal ways to recruit and fund software startup founders of a very, very specific age. Reports filed by Bloomberg news show recruiters in the "Silicon Valley of China" see 28 as the maximum age a tech job candidate is seen as ideal, or even acceptable, despite discrimination there being frowned upon. From...

A  widely cited  report on H1B workers that Pew Research recently published  makes a very counter-intuitive claim that more H1B visas are awarded to East Coast and Texas companies than they are to Silicon Valley companies. But when looking at publicly available data, two very different pictures emerge depending on what one asks. When sorting H1B requests by "worksite city," the city where the H1B employees would show up to daily work, Silicon Valley cities and counties such as Santa Clara clearly appear at the top of a list of counties requesting the most H1B visas. However when sorting H1B requests by "employer city," possibly the company's headquarters, Texas and the Northeast cities appear to request more H1B visas than all other metropolitan regions. Sections and Charts Below: I. Pew Report: H1B Visas Granted in 2010-2016 Surprisingly Went to Texas and Northeast II. Sorting 2017 H1B Requests by "Employer City" Shows Texas and Northeast a...