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Google literally has a C-level Chief Diversity Officer. Her LinkedIn claims an org size of 130+.

Octoth0rpe 4y ago
And at google's size, that's a drop in the bucket.
threeseed 4y ago
And her role is: Lead the Employee Engagement Organization which is a global team of 130+ googlers who are responsible for driving large-scale impact across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs; Employee Relations; and Compliance, Integrity & Governance. So far more than just specifically diversity all for a company of 200,000+ people. i.e. 0.065% of the total workforce.
- trieste92 4y ago
  130 × 250k = 32.5 million I'd be surprised if this "drop in the bucket" was anything more than a sunk cost
  - red-iron-pine 4y ago
    There is no way that many or even most of them are getting anywhere near $250k per annum. Even living in the bay area -- which many of them might not be. GOOG has offices in Austin, Calgary, and Nashville, for example.
  - tdeck 4y ago
    But that's not what this thread is about, it's about why the companies have so many employees. These 130 jobs that so many people want to complain about don't even begin to have relevance to why there are 190,000 people at Google.
mschuster91 4y ago
And at the scale of what Google is doing and just how much impact even seemingly trivial changes can have on millions if not billions of people, taking care of diversity is actually important. Just imagine something as small as a change in color in a website element - 8% of men and so 4% of the global population are color blind. That's 320 million people potentially affected. A copy text that requires more than 4th grade literacy skills in English to grasp? Like half of Americans, 165 million people, potentially affected. An illustration graphic using cows as an example for whatever? A potential offense to a billion of Hindu Indians. And the list goes on and on and on. With Google holding ~85% of the global market share in search or 2.5 billion MAUs for Youtube, taking care about diversity is not even close to optional - it's foundational to make sure the company doesn't get into any sort of trouble.

And at google's size, that's a drop in the bucket.

And her role is: Lead the Employee Engagement Organization which is a global team of 130+ googlers who are responsible for driving large-scale impact across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs; Employee Relations; and Compliance, Integrity & Governance. So far more than just specifically diversity all for a company of 200,000+ people. i.e. 0.065% of the total workforce.

trieste92 4y ago
130 × 250k = 32.5 million I'd be surprised if this "drop in the bucket" was anything more than a sunk cost
- red-iron-pine 4y ago
  There is no way that many or even most of them are getting anywhere near $250k per annum. Even living in the bay area -- which many of them might not be. GOOG has offices in Austin, Calgary, and Nashville, for example.
- tdeck 4y ago
  But that's not what this thread is about, it's about why the companies have so many employees. These 130 jobs that so many people want to complain about don't even begin to have relevance to why there are 190,000 people at Google.

mschuster91 4y ago

And at the scale of what Google is doing and just how much impact even seemingly trivial changes can have on millions if not billions of people, taking care of diversity is actually important. Just imagine something as small as a change in color in a website element - 8% of men and so 4% of the global population are color blind. That's 320 million people potentially affected. A copy text that requires more than 4th grade literacy skills in English to grasp? Like half of Americans, 165 million people, potentially affected. An illustration graphic using cows as an example for whatever? A potential offense to a billion of Hindu Indians. And the list goes on and on and on. With Google holding ~85% of the global market share in search or 2.5 billion MAUs for Youtube, taking care about diversity is not even close to optional - it's foundational to make sure the company doesn't get into any sort of trouble.