The reasons for the problem vary from a tendency to recruit from a handful of name-brand schools such as Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a propensity to hire from one’s social circles, an interview process that doesn’t favor minority candidates and gaps in the promotion process, according to industry experts.
Google has attempted to improve on some of these fronts. This summer, it welcomed a couple dozen students from Howard University to study computer science at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters and learn from Google engineers as part of an effort to forge relationships with historically black colleges.
Technical roles, however, continue to be the hardest for underrepresented groups to break into. Just 1% of the company’s technical roles are filled by blacks and 3% are filled by Hispanics—both figures the same compared with the previous year.
Jackson Thomas
Niggers, spics and women don't want these jobs, same with all STEM Jobs.
Luis Stewart
>Howard University Is this some kind of knock off Harvard?
Luke Butler
Yahoo tried to forcibly fix the gender gap in tech, and look where it got them.
Tech companies are already the most diverse in America thanks to Asians. What more do they want?
Nathaniel Rivera
Asians don't earn companies good boy points for diversity.
Jaxon Wilson
>diverse >thanks to Asians lol
Grayson Edwards
Well, Google had already grown too big and too powerful, so this is great news.
Jackson Kelly
>an interview process that doesn’t favor minority candidates according to industry experts >favor minority candidates according to industry experts >favor >experts
Samuel Smith
It really says something about the complete incompetency of """"""""underrepresented minorities"""""""'" if these notoriously difficult-to-get-into companies are keeling over to them with outreach and special training and they still can't git gud enough to make it in tech.
Brandon Green
>an interview process that doesn’t favor minority candidates How about favoring competent candidates without regard to anything else instead? It's that or a slow slide into mediocrity.
Carson Parker
Didn't you get the memo? Diversity means blacks and sometimes when it's convenient latinos.
Brandon Miller
Because then you hire too many white men and that's Very Problematic™
Jeremiah Collins
>Yahoo tried to forcibly fix the gender gap in tech, and look where it got them.
Bought by Verizon? That sounds good.
Bentley Sanders
>This summer, it welcomed a couple dozen students from Howard University to study computer science at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters and learn from Google engineers as part of an effort to forge relationships with historically black colleges. >Technical roles, however, continue to be the hardest for underrepresented groups to break into. Just 1% of the company’s technical roles are filled by blacks and 3% are filled by Hispanics—both figures the same compared with the previous year.
So they brought them along as custodians?
Carter Reyes
Being forced to sell your company is usually a bad thing.
Noah Mitchell
There goes Joogle. If anything, they have some high quality developers. Not anymore.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
>Tackle Slow Pace of Change How fast do you want the older generation to die? How fast do you want change to occur? Only in the last hundred years have we even been collecting enough statistics to objectively realize how much of a shit hand people get dealt with.
Jace Watson
Collapse of Google in 5... 4...
Carter Wright
Hiring based on merit is bad mmkay?
Aaron Perez
How is this not discrimination? Because it benefits blacks and not whites?
Nicholas Russell
post growth
create internal conflict when there is no external conflict
Grayson Hall
Uh sorry buddy but only the following groups are truly diverse™:
>Blacks >Latinx >Muslims >Indians
Anything else isn't tue diversity™.
Easton Gonzalez
The following should be mandatory by law hiring practices: - Names and genders must be omitted from resumes; - Interviews are to be done over phone/skype, audio only, with voice-altering software to mask gender. This would ensure merit-based hiring.
Mason Russell
>Google’s New Diversity Chief Moot?
Logan Powell
They want to have extremely cheap developpers, but it doesn't work beacause becoming a dev takes a lot of effort & time. It's like trying to make a great meal by rushing it, you can't do that without ruining it. Also nigs are stupid.
Elijah Torres
All Verizon really wanted was the Alibaba stock. All other Yahoo assets will be sold off at bargain bin prices and almost all Yahoo employees will be fired.
Camden Russell
>not having 2 surface books in a basement in an undisclosed location with 2 cortanas acting as intermediaries between the interviewer and the applicant >not having the the 2 cortanas' conversation videotaped to then be presented to a diverse committee of black lgbt genderfluids who will decide whether the aplicant is to be hired
Adam Hughes
They tried that recently. It increased the chances of white males being hired by 3% and decreased the chances of women being hired.
Camden Cruz
As expected of merit-based hiring.
Christian Cruz
Lots of Hispanics in IT
Gavin Hughes
Standford and MIT are already overflowing with token diversity kids
Ryan Edwards
>Technical roles, however, continue to be the hardest for underrepresented groups to break into. Yeah no shit, you must be prepared for that from early childhood like little Barack Obama.
Liam Smith
cleaning all the toilets
Tyler Perry
>niggers are dumb as fuck More news at 11. Good luck finding those minorety technical engineers tho.
Grayson Rogers
Obama was literally was white as he was black.
Asher Edwards
"For all of our communities of color, we're working to make sure our culture is rewarding and welcoming through events, town halls, employee resource groups, and ensuring fairness in the promotion process. We know this is critical to making it safe for everyone to bring their best and most innovative ideas to the table. For example, the idea for our Really Blue Pixel came from Alberto Villarreal, the phone's creative lead and industrial design manager, who derived the color from the Mexico City of his youth. The phone was released in October and sold out within minutes. Alberto is part of a vibrant community of Hispanic Googlers, whose contributions are essential to our ability to reflect the world around us, especially here at our California HQ."
You white boys can't culturally appropriate blue, because it's part of mexican culture now.
Brayden Baker
corporate sponsored racist propaganda is just the best you guys
Caleb Powell
(((diversity))) ruins anything
Cameron Russell
Wonderful
Sebastian Perez
It's no surprise Mexicans dominate the phone industry, look at Carlos Slim.
Jordan Green
>communities of color So... colored people? Lol. Nothing on but re-runs, eh?
Samuel Cox
All they have to do is stop importing asians and they will have a more diverse workforce.
Joseph Cooper
This is great since google is too powerful
Aaron Brown
Psst., don t tell anyone but American blacks are mostly white, Obama is at least half African.
Adam Reyes
Fucking good
Not because I think the diversity will help them. Quite the contrary, diversity is going to fucking kill google, and that's GREAT.
Now if Microsoft could jump aboard and hire more POCs, that'd be great too. It'll give room for intelligent white people to create new startups that outcompete them. More competition in the marketplace in the long run.
Owen Reed
>google is literally going to knife itself I fail to see the problem
Nathaniel Evans
>Now if Microsoft could jump aboard and hire more POCs They are doing this for years
Aaron Gomez
We don't live in a meritocracy. People get employment through knowing the employer from socializing and networking. It's who you know not what you know.
