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A former Google staffer has claimed that the company systematically discriminates against Black employees by assigning them to lower-level positions, paying them less, and denying them growth opportunities.

Lawsuit accuses company of ‘racially biased corporate culture’ in which Black people comprise just 4.4% of employees

We reached out to twitter for a response. they said, were committed to making substantive progress in making twitter more diverse and inclusive. the commitment includes the expansion of our inclusion and diversity programs. beyond just disclosing our workforce represent conversation statistics. making us the largest tech company to put hard numbers around its diversity commitment. its important to note these issues are not just about twitter. most of the tech sector is overwhelmingly represented...

Of engineering about diversity. miley says the response was, diversitys important but we cant lower the bar. miley described another meeting during which he was asked to create a tool to analyze the last names of job candidates, to classify them by their ethnicity. miley wrote, i left that meeting wondering how i could in good conscious continue to work in an organization where the senior vp of engineering could see himself as a technological visionary and be so unawhere of this blind spot in hi...

Outside world has a tendency to kind of fade away. and youre in a really interesting bubble. and once that echo chamber just starts going, people are building the product they want to build. so i think if you bring in diversity, that changes. when you have diversity at the executive level, you build a great product. slack which is one of the un korms n s unicorns now. they have a great product. theyre growing really fast. theyre extremely diverse. i think you look at, once again, you look at twi...

elections, the country woke up to see how its political boundaries shifted after the results rolled in from the night before. for democrats, what they saw wasnt pretty. in kentucky, tea party candidate matt bevin won the governors seat. in a seat thats been held by democrats for most of the last seven decades. part of the sweep that left republicans holding all but two statewide offices in kentucky. its given republicans near total dominance over statehouses in the south. in virginia, ...