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Does Google Actually Want to Hire Black Engineers?

2021/3/12
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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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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