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As a white male boomer, I'm not seeing this - I still see quite a bit of discrimination against Black and Asian people.
I do suspect I am being discriminated against on age grounds, I have a badly paid (in comparison with contracts and prior jobs) permie job, but I cannot catch a cold for anything else, contract or perm.
Well that is the polar opposite to me and my family/friend's experiences...discrimination against whites is rife.
We have family up north and my nephew wanted to join West Yorkshire police earlier in the year and they blocked applications from white British to increase diversity/ethnicity numbers.
I've seen it time and again in the public sector where I applied for perm roles and the DEI policy actively discriminates against whites...the job adverts even go as far to say that they welcome applications from diverse backgrounds...crazy! They want to tick boxes rather than get the best skilled person, whites are back of the queue in their home country...shameful.
Well that is the polar opposite to me and my family/friend's experiences...discrimination against whites is rife.
We have family up north and my nephew wanted to join West Yorkshire police earlier in the year and they blocked applications from white British to increase diversity/ethnicity numbers.
I've seen it time and again in the public sector where I applied for perm roles and the DEI policy actively discriminates against whites...the job adverts even go as far to say that they welcome applications from diverse backgrounds...crazy! They want to tick boxes rather than get the best skilled person, whites are back of the queue in their home country...shameful.
Oh, when will the straight white 50+ man catch a break?! They've had it so tough, life must be so hard for them.
We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to play a key role in developing and evolving a suite of high-performance applications. You'll be working across the entire technology stack, from dynamic, user-friendly web interfaces to robust, scalable Back End microservices - helping to deliver impactful releases in an agile, four-week sprint cycle.
Location: Coventry (2 days onsite)
Contract: 6 months (OIR35)
Rate: £250-300 p/day
Start date: ASAP
So they want someone with advanced Kotlin and Java Spring Boot with front end knowledge to contract for the range £55,000 [ == 220 * 250pd ], £66,000 [ == 220 * 300pd ] - I don't live anywhere near Coventry to boot, but this client will get what they are prepared to pay for, if they find someone.
For comparision, in London, if you have deep expert Kafka knowledge then you can can double the income, for example, https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search...Id=4311413693& Senior Software Developer (Java/Kafka) - Up To £130,000 + Bonus - FTC (sadly it is not Outside IR35)
Being discriminated against for being white is commonplace now you are spot on.
Not seen any uptick in the market as yet.
Well I have seen one Black IT Director (Deutsche Bank 2001) and one Black Head of Engineering (Digital agency 2013) in a British company in my 27 year IT largely software engineering career to date.
If you look at the leadership team portfolios of most consultancies, small to mid-level businesses, then you can tell me, if there has been progress. Even when you look at IT conferences where professionals are speaking, I don't see change: same old faces like Talking Heads (Same as it ever was). I admit this evidence is anecdotal as in common sense.
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