This might be why there are few Black engineers in Big Tech By The Washington Post By Nitasha Tiku For years, Google's recruiting department used a college ranking system to set budgets and priorities for hiring new engineers. Some schools such as Stanford University and MIT were predictably in the "elite" category, while state schools or institutions that churn out thousands of engineering grads annually, such as Georgia Tech, were assigned to "tier 1" or "tier 2." But one category of higher education was missing from Google's ranking system, according to several current and former Google e...