At the largest tech companies, communities of color are notably absent. Professional networks akin to LinkedIn are setting out to solve tech’s long-standing diversity problem, starting with its most underrepresented group.
Although 13% of the U.S. population is black, according to the U.S. Census, tech companies have disproportionately low numbers of black employees—although blacks hold, proportionally, only a slightly lower number of degrees in computer science and engineering as other groups in the U.S.