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Color oracle org2/1/2024 Reveal filed Freedom of Information Act requests for many tech firms’ EEO-1 reports, which show a company’s workforce broken down by race, gender and broad job category. Firms with government contracts are overseen by the Labor Department’s anti-discrimination arm, making their diversity reports subject to public records requests. The company was in the bottom four for its percentage of female managers and the only one that had no women of color in management.Ĭo-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has won hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts, drawing controversy for helping law enforcement track citizens, predict crime and target immigrants. That’s out of 167 of the largest tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to an analysis by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Employment Equity. Of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, only 10 other companies had no female executives in 2015. Department of Labor, in a letter it also tried to keep secret, that “competitors could identify where Palantir has made significant progress in hiring women and minorities and target recruitment strategies at specific job categories to steal this talent from Palantir.”īut Palantir doesn’t compare well, even in an industry infamous for its lack of diversity. The company had no female executives and only one woman, who was white, among its managers. It turns out that Palantir didn’t have such great diversity after all. Well, we finally got Palantir’s 2015 diversity numbers through a public records battle with the government. That’s the argument the data-mining company made to the federal government, blocking release of its diversity statistics for more than a year. Palantir Technologies said it must hide the number of women and people of color it employs so competitors won’t “steal” them. Want more Reveal? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox.
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