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by glenra 3034 days ago
> Google is like 75% white and Asian males, and 25% everyone else.[...] Doesn't seem like these classes are having any trouble succeeding at the company.

At a first glance the racial category "white" on its own is obviously underrepresented at Google both relative to the population of California and relative to that of the United States.

California is ~79% "white" (2005 data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California ) whereas Google is only ~56% "white" (2017 data here: http://fortune.com/2017/06/29/google-2017-diversity-report/ ).

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It is probably even more underrepresented if you sample just tech graduates.

You cannot have racial diversity without massive discrimination if the source is biased.