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What Next - TBD | Does Google Actually Want to Hire Black Engineers?

What Next - TBD | Does Google Actually Want to Hire Black Engineers?

The tech giant’s partnerships with HBCUs are still coming up short.

Slate News · Slate Podcasts

March 12, 202121m 52s

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Show Notes

Back in 2014, Google released in-depth diversity data for its workforce for the first time. 1.1 percent of its tech team identified as Black. Six years later, after millions of dollars spent and a much-hyped partnership program with historically Black colleges and universities across the country, that number is up to 2.4 percent. 


How did such a promising effort yield such incremental change?


Guest: Nitasha Tiku, tech culture reporter at the Washington Post


Host

Lizzie O’Leary


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