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Former Facebook employee releases internal memo accusing the company of failing its black users and employees

sudshr47 November 27, 2018

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A former Facebook employee is going public with his claims that the company is failing its black employees as well as its black users.

“Facebook has a black people problem,” begins Mark S. Luckie’s internal memo shared publicly for the first time on Tuesday. Luckie says he circulated his memo to all of Facebook’s global employees on November 8, not long before his last day working at the company. Luckie worked at the company for a little over one year as a Strategic Partner Manager for Influencers.

Facebook is failing its Black employees and its Black users. Here’s why: https://t.co/PJSRrFJZrO pic.twitter.com/LeCYxCwBpX

— Mark S. Luckie (@marksluckie) November 27, 2018 Read more…

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Making tech truly diverse calls for new tactics and renewed commitment

sudshr47 June 29, 2018

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This column is part of a series called “Voices of Women in Tech,” created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions training the next generation.

So much time, effort, and expense go into fixing tech’s diversity problem — why have we seen so little progress?

The proof of our failure is in the data. The 2017 Top Companies for Women Technologists report, which measured more than 547,000 technologists across 63 organizations, showed a mere 1.2 percent year-over-year increase in the number of women in technical roles. Women’s representation in midlevel, senior, and executive roles saw considerably smaller increases of .2 percent, .6 percent, and 1 percent respectively.  Read more…

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Former recruiter sues Google, says white and Asian candidates were ‘purged’

sudshr47 March 2, 2018

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The Google diversity hiring wars rage on. 

Another former Google employee is suing Google for wrongful termination. This time, the plaintiff is a recruiter — someone who was actually responsible for carrying out Google’s diversity initiatives, and who found them discriminatory.

Arne Wilberg was a recruiter on Google’s technology and engineering hiring team for YouTube. He claims he was let go after criticizing, and refusing to conform to, Google’s hiring mandate to prioritize candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups, and de-prioritize white and Asian men.  Read more…

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Calling out ‘white male privilege’ at Google is apparently a fireable offense

sudshr47 February 22, 2018

Google is now facing a new lawsuit over diversity, but from the opposite side of the one that you’ve probably heard about. On Thursday, Gizmodo reported that former Google employee Tim Chevalier is suing Google for discrimination, harassment, retalia…

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