A Facebook recruiter filed a federal complaint alleging the company is biased against Black employees and job candidates
, which was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleges that Facebook "has had and continues to have a general policy of discrimination against Black applicants and workers, including in hiring, evaluations, promotions, and pay."
Oscar Veneszee Jr., a recruiter for Facebook's infrastructure team and Black US Navy veteran who focuses on helping the company recruit other people of color and veterans, and who brought the complaint, said that he has struggled to get fair performance evaluations or raises, and frequently experiences racism on the job.
"We believe it is essential to provide all employees with a respectful and safe working environment. We take any allegations of discrimination seriously and investigate every case," Facebook spokesperson Pamela Austin told Business Insider in a statement. , the year of its most recent public demographics report. Latinos represented 7% of Apple's leadership. At Google-parent Alphabet, Blacks and Latinos accounted for 2.6% and 3.7%, respectively, of its leadership ranks in the company's most recent report.The Facebook complaint criticizes a number of Facebook's hiring practices — many of which are common throughout the tech industry — such as "culture fit" and a preference for referrals.
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