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25 Aug How do tech’s biggest companies compare on diversity?
Last week Apple finally released the Equal Employment Opportunity report detailing the diversity of its US workforce. The so-called EEO-1 accompanied Apple’s second diversity report with a note meant to discredit the validity of the government-mandated data. "The EEO-1 has not kept pace with changes in industry or the American workforce over the past half century," reads the Apple diversity page. "We believe the information we report elsewhere on this site is a far more accurate reflection of our progress toward diversity." Google, Facebook, and Microsoft describe similar inadequacies in their EEO-1 reports.
21 Aug Diversity in Tech: Intel Offers Up to $4,000 Referral Bonus For Minorities, Women, Veterans
Intel is increasing their referral bonus to encourage minorities, women and veterans to work at the company. Qualified referrals of these groups will give current employees a bonus of up to $4,000.
20 Aug Black lawmakers call for more diversity in Silicon Valley
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus flew to Silicon Valley this week to turn up the heat on the nation's largest tech companies to hire more African Americans. Caucus members met with Apple's Tim Cook and Intel's Brian Krzanich as well as executives from Google, Pandora and SAP to discuss how technology companies plan to fix their troubling hiring record.
19 Aug Georgia Tech receives $5M Intel grant to increase STEM diversity
Technology company Intel is donating $5 million to Georgia Tech as part of an initiative to increase the number of underrepresented engineers and computer scientists. The Intel Diversity Scholars Program will recruit and retain minority students to science, technology, engineering and math majors, and prepare them...
