Racial inequality in Silicon Valley: Pinterest is among many tech companies struggling to become less white

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'At the top of the company, underrepresented minorities are nowhere to be found.'

Despite efforts to stake out a leadership position among technology companies striving to bring aboard more Hispanic and black employees, Pinterest has made little progress in reaching racial equality.As of 2018, Pinterest employed 96 Hispanic and 64 black workers out of a total workforce of 1,742. The percentage of Hispanic and black employees – 5.5% and 3.7%, respectively – did not budge in a statistically significant way from 2017.

At the top of the company, underrepresented minorities are nowhere to be found. Pinterest reports it has one Hispanic woman in a senior management role and no African Americans.Sixteen Hispanic employees and 11 African American employees work in management, accounting for 4% and 2.8% of those roles in the company, respectively, the report shows.

The sharp lack of diversity in the tech industry was thrust into the national conversation in 2014, when everyone from Google to Facebook to Apple disclosed for the first time how few women and people of color they employ.A call to action from a former Pinterest engineer, Tracy Chou, challenging tech companies to make public the number of women engineers in their ranks, spurred them to release annual diversity statistics and pledge to make their workforce less homogeneous.

such as sales and administration, with African Americans faring noticeably worse than Hispanics, a USA TODAY analysis in 2014 revealed.

 

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