6. Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac is a Virginia-based mortgage-finance firm. They’ve been hiring college graduates with ASD since 2011 through a partnership with ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network). Young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger’s with degrees in computer science, finance and mathematics are welcomed to seek for employment in this company. Freddie Mac’s diversity manager stated that there has been “a certain perception of this population as being incapable of performing corporate level work but in reality people on the spectrum offer so much to the organization”. Their project was also described as successful and they keep hiring new workers with autism.
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