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https://careers.google.com/ https://careers.google.com/, scroll down to "Spotlight", scroll over to "Data center roles" or "Staff Software Engineer", both pictu

https://careers.google.com/ https://careers.google.com/, scroll down to "Spotlight", scroll over to "Data center roles" or "Staff Software Engineer", both pictures of white male talking to white female. Globally white people are about 10% of the population, so I'd expect 1 in 10 people in a representative sample to be white, which feels about right for much of Google's marketing material.

fizwhiz 5y ago
> both pictures of white male talking to white female. white passing *
usrn 5y ago
Google is a US company though.
- deadmutex 5y ago
  Google has a huge employee and user base across multiple continents.
Workaccount2 5y ago
A lone white male. Sorry it wasn't totally clear. For all intents and purposes, women count as minorities. Google has plenty of pictures with white women, and white men and women. But so far I have only found one picture with a lone white male (on one of the chromecast pages, on the TV was a show page, and the show page had a lone white male). I guess they can get 1/2 credit for that. Oh and I found a picture of a lone white guy, but he was disabled. So I guess that technically counts, although he would still fall into the "minority/disadvantaged" camp.
- nostrademons 5y ago
  https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-accessible-with-live-transcribe/ https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-access... Took about 2 minutes.
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  - samhw 5y ago
    Nah, watch the video, he's Hispanic. (Of course racial classifications have no real meaning, but ime Hispanic people are generally - bar some Spaniards - 'typed' as non-white, comparable to Asians or Native Americans. And certainly a minority in US terms.) ETA: He's also deaf, fwiw, with regard to the minority point. ETA2: Hmm, I may be wrong about the exact details. It looks like he's a research scientist at Google, and, judging by the name, possibly Russian. But the same non-Caucasian non-''white'' point applies. (The Spanish voiceover and subtitles confused me - it's not his voice at the start, whereas his own 'deaf voice' makes any accent hard to identify.)
    - nostrademons 5y ago
      Pretty sure he's Ukrainian ("kanevsky" = "of Kaniv" [city in Ukraine]). Last I checked Ukrainians were considered white.
      - samhw 5y ago
        Hmm, I think we're coming up against the weirdness of racial categories here. I'd say Ukrainians - to much the same extent as Hispanics - aren't quite considered white in American terms (which has virtually zero to do with one's skin color). Or not Caucasian, at least. (Yes, despite the fact that they come literally from the Caucasus, while Americans don't.) But it's impossible to come to an exact agreement on these things. That interesting diversion notwithstanding, I think his being deaf is probably what accounts for his inclusion, which is consistent with the spirit of what that person was saying.
- burkaman 4y ago
  Did you try just clicking through their main corporate website? I don't understand why you would make this claim without checking. https://www.blog.google/press/ https://www.blog.google/press/ (filter for headshots) https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/ https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/ https://about.google/stories/ https://about.google/stories/ https://grow.google/ https://grow.google/, https://grow.google/grow-your-career/ https://grow.google/grow-your-career/, https://grow.google/grow-your-business/ https://grow.google/grow-your-business/, https://grow.google/certificates/ https://grow.google/certificates/ https://learning.google/ https://learning.google/, https://learning.google/school/ https://learning.google/school/ https://www.android.com/enterprise/ https://www.android.com/enterprise/ https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellevue-redmond/ https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellev... https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141 https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474 https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474 This is just scratching the surface, I'm not gonna spend time clicking in to every blog post and article. Again, their target market is basically the entire world, and most people in the world (and the US) are not white men. So I would not expect the majority of pictures to be white men, and indeed they are not.

fizwhiz 5y ago

> both pictures of white male talking to white female. white passing *

usrn 5y ago

Google is a US company though.

deadmutex 5y ago
Google has a huge employee and user base across multiple continents.

Workaccount2 5y ago

A lone white male. Sorry it wasn't totally clear. For all intents and purposes, women count as minorities. Google has plenty of pictures with white women, and white men and women. But so far I have only found one picture with a lone white male (on one of the chromecast pages, on the TV was a show page, and the show page had a lone white male). I guess they can get 1/2 credit for that. Oh and I found a picture of a lone white guy, but he was disabled. So I guess that technically counts, although he would still fall into the "minority/disadvantaged" camp.

nostrademons 5y ago
https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-accessible-with-live-transcribe/ https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-access... Took about 2 minutes.
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- samhw 5y ago
  Nah, watch the video, he's Hispanic. (Of course racial classifications have no real meaning, but ime Hispanic people are generally - bar some Spaniards - 'typed' as non-white, comparable to Asians or Native Americans. And certainly a minority in US terms.) ETA: He's also deaf, fwiw, with regard to the minority point. ETA2: Hmm, I may be wrong about the exact details. It looks like he's a research scientist at Google, and, judging by the name, possibly Russian. But the same non-Caucasian non-''white'' point applies. (The Spanish voiceover and subtitles confused me - it's not his voice at the start, whereas his own 'deaf voice' makes any accent hard to identify.)
  - nostrademons 5y ago
    Pretty sure he's Ukrainian ("kanevsky" = "of Kaniv" [city in Ukraine]). Last I checked Ukrainians were considered white.
    - samhw 5y ago
      Hmm, I think we're coming up against the weirdness of racial categories here. I'd say Ukrainians - to much the same extent as Hispanics - aren't quite considered white in American terms (which has virtually zero to do with one's skin color). Or not Caucasian, at least. (Yes, despite the fact that they come literally from the Caucasus, while Americans don't.) But it's impossible to come to an exact agreement on these things. That interesting diversion notwithstanding, I think his being deaf is probably what accounts for his inclusion, which is consistent with the spirit of what that person was saying.
burkaman 4y ago
Did you try just clicking through their main corporate website? I don't understand why you would make this claim without checking. https://www.blog.google/press/ https://www.blog.google/press/ (filter for headshots) https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/ https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/ https://about.google/stories/ https://about.google/stories/ https://grow.google/ https://grow.google/, https://grow.google/grow-your-career/ https://grow.google/grow-your-career/, https://grow.google/grow-your-business/ https://grow.google/grow-your-business/, https://grow.google/certificates/ https://grow.google/certificates/ https://learning.google/ https://learning.google/, https://learning.google/school/ https://learning.google/school/ https://www.android.com/enterprise/ https://www.android.com/enterprise/ https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellevue-redmond/ https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellev... https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141 https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474 https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474 This is just scratching the surface, I'm not gonna spend time clicking in to every blog post and article. Again, their target market is basically the entire world, and most people in the world (and the US) are not white men. So I would not expect the majority of pictures to be white men, and indeed they are not.