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I had nothing but positive things to say during that time, but that was before the promises were broken.
She says a Howard West program leader promised to match an offer from Apple, which would pay for her senior year, but she found herself instead with unpaid bills and a sour experience. While she said she enjoyed the program in general, she and other participants often felt that Google s ambitions for the program took precedent over the needs of participants.
The program is one of many initiatives the tech industry has undertaken to improve diversity in its workforce. Today, only 3.7% of Google s U.S. workforce is Black, a small rise from 2.4% in 2014, when the company first announced its diversity numbers. Attrition rates for Google s Black U.S. employees are higher than for other demographic groups, with Black females seeing a particular spike in attrition from last year, up 18%,