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by pjscott 3622 days ago
It looks like the "tech" category reported on those graphs is including technicians, which make up very different percentages of the workforce at the two companies -- about 1% of Google's employees and 22% of Apple's, according to their EEO-1 forms:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...

https://www.apple.com/diversity/pdf/2015-EEO-1-Consolidated-...

Within the "professionals" category, which is the one with engineers in it, both have pretty similar percentages of black employees: about 1.7% at Google, compared to... about 1.7% at Apple.