Time for me to add a profile pic on LinkedIn?

Seriously now...

I'm not sure what, if anything, to make of this. I expected the numbers to be low, but not that low. I've personally felt discriminated against throughout life and at times witnessed direct evidence of it.

Thing is, the objective requirements for candidates to build and run bleeding edge infrastructure in a highly competitive market is quite a bit different from say renting an apartment.

This leads me to imagine that the applicable pool will be much smaller and Google will not be inclined to pass on qualified candidates.

That said, ‘Google’ doesn't hire people, people do and unless the process has changed - any single person can exclude any candidate. It would be interesting to know what proportion of minority candidates who come on-site are hired versus the field - not conclusive, but certainly interesting.

If I had guess I’d think that discrimination is producing this, but it’s not happening at Google - it’s happening all over. A million small slights and denied opportunities (in this generation or those prior) that see people who might otherwise have the capacity never gain the necessary experience, exposure, relationships or plain confidence that could surface them to the top.

Personally, I had never entertained the possibility that I could work for them until they called me - it was eye-opening that someone could see a possibility in me that I’d refused to see myself. Interestingly, both times I've been contacted by SV companies (Google included) the recruiters were minorities themselves.

We’ll see.