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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, we're 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. it's important to note these issues are not just about twitter. most of the tech sector is overwhelmingly represented by white men. at twitter, black employees comprise only 2% across the board. at google, 1.9% of e...
Of engineering about diversity. miley says the response was, diversity's important but we can't 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 his understanding of diversity. leadership keeps citing the pipeline when the data do not support it...
Outside world has a tendency to kind of fade away. and you're 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. they're growing really fast. they're extremely diverse. i think you look at, once again, you look at twitter. twitter having the problem because it is used by people of color in this country, you know,...