Employees sit in ball chairs as they work on laptop computers at the Flipkart Online Services Pvt. headquarters in Bengaluru, India, on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Last summer, with Flipkart losing ground to Amazon.com Inc., New York's Tiger Global Management. sent in former EBay executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy to help turn around India's most valuable internet startup. The two co-founders stood aside as Krishnamurthy took control of its biggest sale season, fired senior managers and set tough traffic and sales targets. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
The lack of diversity in the tech industry is pretty well understood by now – by everyone except those who work there, it would seem.
According to a recent survey of 1,400 tech employees, 94% of American tech workers give the industry, their companies, and their teams a passing grade on diversity. That’s in a sector where 76% of technical jobs are held by men, and blacks and Latinos make up only 5% of the workforce.
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