A new lawsuit accuses the company of fostering a racially biased corporate culture that offers Black employees lower pay and fewer opportunities to advance than their white counterparts. The complaint was filed on Friday in San Jose, California, and alleges that the company subjected April Curley and other current and former Black employees to a hostile work environment.
Curley was hired to design a program to connect the company with Black colleges. She claims she was stereotyped as an angry black woman by her managers after she was passed over for promotions.
The lawyer for Curley said that while they were looking to increase diversity, they were actually undervaluing, underpaying and mistreating their Black employees. According to the complaint, Black people make up less than 4% of employees and less than 3% of leadership.
We reached out to the company.
Curley is not the first person to accuse the company of creating a hostile work environment for people of color. In the aftermath of Timnit Gebru's controversial exit from the company, a former employee of the tech giant said she decided to leave after becoming tired of its structural deficiencies. There is a white tech organization.
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