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20 WORST EMPLOYERS
FOR ASIAN AMERICANS

his list contains those employers with more than 1,000 employees who, in our opinion, are least likely to provide opportunities for Asian Americans. Factors include large-scale reductions due to mergers and acquisitions, tendency to disfavor Asian Americans for managerial positions or to ghettoize them to certain areas. We also consider history of anti-Asian bias and insensitivity toward Asian Americans. Our information was obtained from reader responses to our ongoing Employer Survey, responses from employers (or lack thereof), media research and commercial sources.

AEROSPACE General Dynamics Falls Church, VA Warships; nuclear submarines; tanks, landing vehicles; missiles; underwater radar and sonar systems; acquired Lockheed Martin's armament unit; 30,000 employees; $4.2 bil sales; $330 mil profits; shows little interest in hiring Asian Americans Northrop Grumman Corp Los Angeles, CA Military surveillance systems; combat aircraft, airspace management systems; information systems; marine systems, precision weapons; space systems AIRLINES Delta Air Lines Inc (no jobs page on its website) Atlanta, GA Failed Asian expansion plans have pushed Delta into alliances with international carriers, leaving it cool toward Asian recruitment or passengers; has shifted its expansion hopes to Latin America; 72,000 employees; $15 bil sales; $1 bil profits Northwest Airlines Corporation Eagan, MN Pioneer in trans-Pacific travel with many routes to Asian cities; considering that, has always been surprisingly cool toward hiring or promoting Asian Americans; 50,000 employees; $10 bil sales; $600 mil profits AUTOMOTIVE Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota City, Japan Has top automotive technology and respected brands but has become stodgy and lacks dynamism to woo new generation of carbuyers; relies too heavily on over-40 buyers; in eagerness to woo white America, shows studied indifference toward Asian Americans who helped Toyota get its initial toehold in the crucial California market; in Japan is rapidly losing market share to Honda;160,000 employees; $90 bil sales; $3.6 bil profits

BIOTECH & PHARMACEUTICALS Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, NJ Leader in health-care product; Tylenol and Motrin analgesics; Band-Aid; AcuVue contact lenses; surgical instruments; joint replacements, and pharmaceuticals; focuses on sales and marketing while outsourcing R&D, leaving few opportunities for Asians with sophisticated biotech or hi-tech skills; suffers from slowing growth in a mature market; 91,000 employees; $23 bil sales COMPUTING & COMMUNICATIONS MCI Worldcom Inc Jackson, MS Formed by recent merger of Worldcom with MCI; a mass-market service business with outsourced technology, leaving little room for hi-tech ambitions; busily digesting merger and shedding workers rather than hiring; 25,000 employees; $8 bil sales; $400 mil profits AT&T Corporation New York, NY Faces slowing growth in its core long-distance business; moving into cellular; internet access; messaging; air-to-ground; local calling; moving into cable and entertainment through acquisition of TCI; too busy digesting merger to recruit new employees; 130,000 employees; $53 bil sales; $4.8 bil profits Apple Computer Inc Cupertino, CA Created the first-rate Mac graphic-user interface but, notwithstanding its recent success with entry-level iMac, seems to have a block about opening up its OS to a larger universe; terminated licensing agreements and is going alone again; since its early lead was destroyed largely by Asian IBM clones, the Apple culture has been aloof toward all things Asians, including Asian tech talent; 11,000 employees; $6 bil sales Motorola, Inc Schaumburg, IL Cellular phones; chips; pagers; PCs; networking peripherals; owns 20% of Iridium satellite communications project; has lost its onetime cellular supremacy to European and Asian rivals; is working on a comeback but also cutting 10% of its 150,000 workforce; $30,000 bil sales; $1 bil profits America Online Inc Dulles, VA Top online access provider with 14 mil subscribers; moving aggressively into online retailing as well as content partnerships with various publishers, but is generally scorned by digerati; now faces spectre of numerous free online access services; acquired Netscape with its 8 mil visitors and 40 mil browser users but is a low-wage, low-tech business that will have trouble digesting Netscape's tech pool, leaving little room for new tekkie hires; not encouraging for Asian American applicants; 8,500 employees; $2.7 bil sales; $95 mil profits

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