Comments on: Dear Google, hire more Blacks. http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/ Covering Web 2.0 Trends on African-American Websites and in African-American Culture Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: urbantech http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2721 urbantech Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:37:43 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2721 Now I am even more interested to know. I have been to the campus before, and I can tell you I have no seen many of "African Americans" represented. I know this is even stranger, but David C. Drummond is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, and he is black. According to the site, He served as Google's first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. Checkout: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html#david Now I am even more interested to know. I have been to the campus before, and I can tell you I have no seen many of “African Americans” represented. I know this is even stranger, but David C. Drummond is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, and he is black. According to the site, He served as Google’s first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing.

Checkout:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html#david

]]> By: mega http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2712 mega Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:39:56 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2712 Let's just say that it is reasonable to conclude that like many companies, Google has a few people of color, but not a lot. Personally I have met two. Additionally as already noted in these comments, for the scale of the company there is a serious underrepresentation. Now if one were to survey a number of Black BW2.0 community members who have attempted to join the Google team in recent years, and if I were a betting man, I might wager that a very large percentage were not offered a position. Let’s just say that it is reasonable to conclude that like many companies, Google has a few people of color, but not a lot. Personally I have met two. Additionally as already noted in these comments, for the scale of the company there is a serious underrepresentation. Now if one were to survey a number of Black BW2.0 community members who have attempted to join the Google team in recent years, and if I were a betting man, I might wager that a very large percentage were not offered a position.

]]> By: Angela http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2682 Angela Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:40:32 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2682 <p>Check out their diversity page, i do see a hand full of Blacks:<br /> http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=diversity.html<br /> and supposedly have work locally and nationally with the National Society of Black Engineers</p> Check out their diversity page, i do see a hand full of Blacks:
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=diversity.html
and supposedly have work locally and nationally with the National Society of Black Engineers

]]> By: urbantech http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2675 urbantech Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:12:49 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2675 This is a subject which needs to be investigated for sure. I am not sure about in the US, but they just hired the first "african" employee last year for a continent with millions of internet users already, now thats pretty sad for a company of Google's size and growth rate! This is a subject which needs to be investigated for sure. I am not sure about in the US, but they just hired the first “african” employee last year for a continent with millions of internet users already, now thats pretty sad for a company of Google’s size and growth rate!

]]> By: Solacetech http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2662 Solacetech Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:33:51 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/26/dear-google-hire-more-blacks/#comment-2662 The interview sounds inconclusive since HR is taught NOT to say anything offensive or politically incorrect. An insider would've been more relevant but since it seems there aren't many African Americans @ Google... I was pleasantly surprised to see many African Americans in the IT Dept. for a high profile College/Hospital in Philadelphia. The interview sounds inconclusive since HR is taught NOT to say anything offensive or politically incorrect. An insider would’ve been more relevant but since it seems there aren’t many African Americans @ Google… I was pleasantly surprised to see many African Americans in the IT Dept. for a high profile College/Hospital in Philadelphia.

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