From Apple to Facebook, Tech’s New Diversity Pledges Follow Years of Failure
Big U.S. tech companies have not hired many Black employees, especially in technical and leadership roles.
Leadership teams from Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Photographer: Bloomberg (19); Getty Images (4); Amazon (1); Apple (1); Facebook (1)Spurred by nationwide protests and calls to end systemic racism after the police killing of George Floyd, Google, Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. recently vowed to increase the diversity of their workforce. If this sounds depressingly familiar, that's because it is. The industry has been making similar pledges for years, with little progress.
The world’s most valuable tech companies are still predominantly white and male, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of diversity reports published by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Photos of Black workers feature prominently in these reports but remain mostly absent from management ranks and are underrepresented in technical roles. Photos of leadership ranks pictured here are based on named executive officers listed in the companies’ latest annual proxy statements.