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That's one interpretation. The other, more probable interpretation is that it is a pipeline problem. Try comparing their demographics with Bay Area, top school

• sp332 10y ago
  It's probably not a pipeline problem. https://www.cnet.com/news/when-tech-firms-judge-on-skills-alone-women-land-more-job-interviews/ https://www.cnet.com/news/when-tech-firms-judge-on-skills-al... Anyway, tech companies spend a lot of money and effort trying to reshape the pipeline to direct talent their way. https://blog.twitter.com/2015/we-re-committing-to-a-more-diverse-twitter https://blog.twitter.com/2015/we-re-committing-to-a-more-div... For schools, I'm not sure where to find that data, but I did see that Berkeley's "diversity" class had a higher completion rate and higher average GPA than the other students taking the same course. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/cs-scholars https://eecs.berkeley.edu/cs-scholars This demonstrates that a quarter billion dollars could effectively address any pipeline problem, if there is one. Edit: These numbers vary wildly for other companies in the same location, so I'm not sure a comparison with them proves anything. https://hackerlife.co/blog/tech-companies-diversity/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-CA https://hackerlife.co/blog/tech-companies-diversity/San-Fran...