"Every year they put out the same diversity report, check the box, then send out the same report the next year," said Freada Kapor Klein, founding partner at Kapor Capital. "We're at a crucial crossroads — I don't think what tech companies have done to date is anywhere near enough."the gap and made it a public goal to increase diversity in their workforces.
Women have moved up as a higher fraction of the workforce. Facebook's technical workforce, for example, jumped from 15% female when the report began in 2014 to 23% at the beginning of 2019. Google has made similar progress. Among leadership and technical roles like coders and engineers, the diversity numbers are even lower. Apple's workforce is 9% Black — but that drops to 3% when looking at leadership roles. Its share of Black technical workers remained flat at 6% from the end of 2013 through the end of 2017, the last year Apple published diversity data.
In response to CNBC's requests for comment, the tech companies pointed to incremental progress. Last year, Google showed its largest increase recorded in hiring Black tech employees in the U.S. At Apple, 53% of new hires in the U.S. are from historically underrepresented groups in tech.
Bingo. I can code circles around ivy grads but get rejected because im not a good 'culture fit'. The culture fit test is widely used and accepted in SV. Its very nature is discriminatory. Why isn't there an uproar over this?
They value diversity… But they hire the best people for the job....There are not a lot of women programmers, for instance...
Because you can't mandate ability.
Google and Microsoft have brown CEOs.
They are diverse, just not black dominant. They don't give a fk about your race. They only care about your skill set and a robust interview process which doesn't sway based on political tide.
Yes, very strange how they have not hired more black people that are not the top software engineers in the world to do software engineering. Very strange. Usually you want to hire people that have absolutely no idea what they are doing. That's how to run a company. Ask ripple
DISCRETEboi206 Tech companies have accomplished little on the diversity front because, contrary to hysterical accusations of systemic racism, it really is a pipeline problem that they alone can't fix ... as some of us have been saying since the beginning.
Why not pick the most qualified person to do the job..? Any other method just promotes weakness over ability. Choose by ability, not gender, race, or color. Unless you want China to win..?
Just like politicians. All words and no action.
Diversity is more than just race, but go off.
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Who all thought there was a pipeline of minorities ready to fill tech jobs?
Tech companies pay for RESULTS if some young black kid with arms, 5 legs, purple ears and green hair wrote a profitable app, they'd buy it in a heartbeat regardless, so if there's a lack of 'diversity' in the industry it simply shows a lack of application amongst blacks.......
Because they’re not gonna hire a shit ton of people simply because their skin is a different shade. They do that only sometimes.
They don’t need to change. They know all it takes to get Democratic voters is WORDS and BS promises. And they’re right.
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