“We are unequivocal in our belief that
“Building an open, inclusive environment is core to who we are, and the right thing to do,” added Ari Balogh, the company’s vice-president of engineering, “‘Nuff said.”
Google might prefer the discussion to end there, but the reality is there is a lot more to say about the company’s commitment to diversity.
The public relations blitz may be a corporate necessity given the virulent backlash against the document by many of Google’s own employees. On Monday night, Bloomberg reported that the engineer said he had been fired; Google declined to comment on individual employee cases.
But public commitments to diversity from Google executives do not tally with the company’s workforce data.
Google’s workforce is, by its own accounting, 69% male and just 2% African American. Just 20% of technical jobs are held by women. Google may be unequivocal in its “belief” about diversity, but the figures make its shortcomings clear. The company tends to hire white and Asian men over women and other racial minorities.
