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Re:Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring by dlss on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:37AM (#12101250)
Right, that's the thesis of the article. The basis for concluding that Google, Facebook, etc were not "actually serious" was their numbers being lower than Apple's numbers.

I was asking if perhaps OP's data analysis was flawed because (for example) Apple might be counting Genius Bar employees as "tech" for the purposes of the diversity report... ie maybe Apple has the same difficulty hiring diverse candidates as Google for similar positions, OP's friend's experience notwithstanding.

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Re:Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring by saranagati on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:44AM (#12101315)
on top of that, apple is much more of a device company than the others. this means that they will have a lot more people on the technical staff that aren't developers and those other positions may have a larger candidate pool of blacks.
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