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Getting straight to the point, I needed to bitch about my lack of achievement this summer. So here is what happened:
I took an internship at Genworth Financial (formerly GE Financial). What I did wasn't important, the important thing was everyone was very impressed at what I did. The internship lead to something else: if you were good enough, you will be interviewed for a "Leadership Development Program" or LDP so they can train you to be a team leader or get to somewhere of that extent after you graduate (only rising seniors were offered interviews.) Its a 2 year program where you change locations every 6 months to learn different stuff at different offices.
I got offered an interview, however, I did not get into the program. Now heres whats messed up: out of the 6 IT interns interviewed, two of them were selected (other interns from other departments have about the same 1/3 odds). I felt like the interviews went extremely well, so this was a kindve a disappointment at first. But eventually when I got the entire picture, something was very, very wrong.
Out of the 6 interns, 3 of them were african american. Two of them were caucasian, and then there was me. The two caucasians were the ones being extended offers. At first I thought, nah you're just in denial and a racist motherfucker, which was true, but then I thought about all the people already in the program - they were all white also. All 16 of them.
From the finance department, which was even more competitive (odds around 1/5, 5 out of about 26 interns would get it) 11 people went in for interviews. 6 caucasian, 6 colored. The five being extended offers? You guessed it. All caucasian. I think there was one hire in acturial that wasn't caucasian, but he was probably half and half.
So the moral of the story is, corporate america hates colored people. Not as workers (because they still want me to work there full time just not the program) just as people in management positions. This is actually true if you look at the striking "glass ceiling" employment problem with asian americans today. And I've learned that it doesn't matter how much you rock at your job - you're chinese and its not likely you'll ever move out of a cubicle.
If you've ever worked in a cube farm, just think about how many colored people have actual offices with doors. I'm sure they exist, but then compare it to how many of them work in cubicles doing analyst work.
Time to update my resume and start looking for grad schools.
I took an internship at Genworth Financial (formerly GE Financial). What I did wasn't important, the important thing was everyone was very impressed at what I did. The internship lead to something else: if you were good enough, you will be interviewed for a "Leadership Development Program" or LDP so they can train you to be a team leader or get to somewhere of that extent after you graduate (only rising seniors were offered interviews.) Its a 2 year program where you change locations every 6 months to learn different stuff at different offices.
I got offered an interview, however, I did not get into the program. Now heres whats messed up: out of the 6 IT interns interviewed, two of them were selected (other interns from other departments have about the same 1/3 odds). I felt like the interviews went extremely well, so this was a kindve a disappointment at first. But eventually when I got the entire picture, something was very, very wrong.
Out of the 6 interns, 3 of them were african american. Two of them were caucasian, and then there was me. The two caucasians were the ones being extended offers. At first I thought, nah you're just in denial and a racist motherfucker, which was true, but then I thought about all the people already in the program - they were all white also. All 16 of them.
From the finance department, which was even more competitive (odds around 1/5, 5 out of about 26 interns would get it) 11 people went in for interviews. 6 caucasian, 6 colored. The five being extended offers? You guessed it. All caucasian. I think there was one hire in acturial that wasn't caucasian, but he was probably half and half.
So the moral of the story is, corporate america hates colored people. Not as workers (because they still want me to work there full time just not the program) just as people in management positions. This is actually true if you look at the striking "glass ceiling" employment problem with asian americans today. And I've learned that it doesn't matter how much you rock at your job - you're chinese and its not likely you'll ever move out of a cubicle.
If you've ever worked in a cube farm, just think about how many colored people have actual offices with doors. I'm sure they exist, but then compare it to how many of them work in cubicles doing analyst work.
Time to update my resume and start looking for grad schools.
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