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> By and large, our industry is young, male, white Is it? This story is about Apple, and according to its figures 47% of employees are white and about two-thir

by Veen 5y ago

> By and large, our industry is young, male, white Is it? This story is about Apple, and according to its figures 47% of employees are white and about two-thirds are male. If the two-thirds male figure is consistent across ethnicities, around 30% of Apple employees are white men. https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/21/apple-shares-2020-data-divers/ https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/21/apple-shares-2020-data-divers... If you filter that by tech workers, only 44% are white, about 74% of whom are men, which gives a slightly higher percentage of white men, but still about in line with the general population.

roughly 5y ago
Three notes on that: 1) The numbers in "R&D" are substantially worse - 30% URM, 23% female. I'd suspect if you scoped "R&D" down to just software, the numbers would get even worse. 2) I'd expect Apple's numbers here to be broadly higher than the industry at large - larger companies can afford DEI departments and put in more effort to improving their hiring practices. 3) The numbers for leadership are even worse, and that's echoed broadly across the industry - it's not hard to find a black engineer, but it's damn hard to find a black director; it's not hard to find a female engineer, but it's damn hard to find a female principle engineer.