Here’s What It’s Like To Be Black @ Google…

While many of these responses were positive, Google itself recognizes it’s still plagued by a lack of diversity. Upon the release of their 2015 report, the company explained, “We’re still not where we want to be when it comes to diversity. It is hard to address these kinds of challenges if you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts.”

Which doesn’t mean there hasn’t been progress.

“I feel that there’s a heightened sense of awareness, particularly in the last two to three years,” Yolanda Mangolini, Google’s director of diversity and inclusion, told The Root in September of that same year. ”People pay attention to who’s onstage. Managers will observe that, ‘Hey, there are five white dudes [onstage],’ and make things more diverse.”