Nearly two years after the nation’s largest tech companies started to publish their employee diversity numbers for the first time, Latino insiders in Silicon Valley – America's tech hub – say the industry is not doing enough to ensure its workforce is diverse.
For years, the tech industry guarded its diversity numbers, until public pressure forced companies to reveal what many suspected: a dismal reality in which few women, African-Americans and Hispanics worked in jobs, and especially in leadership roles, in the nation’s most desirable tech companies.
Of the 241,804 employees who work among the nation’s leading tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter, just 4 percent are Hispanic. Latinos comprise an even smaller percentage of those in leadership roles, those holding a director-level position or above, according to the latest data compiled by the Wall Street Journal. READ MORE AT FOX NEWS LATINO
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