From DailyTech: Leslie Miley has quit microblogging and social media powerhouse Twitter, Inc. (TWTR). Well, "quit" might be a bit of an understatement. Let's just say Miley went out with a bang.
On a guest blog post, published by the rabble-rousing social media news site Medium, he makes an incendiary claim that he was "the only African-American in [engineering] leadership". He writes:
Twitter no longer has any managers, directors, or VP’s of color in engineering or product management.
So at Twitter it appears that black engineers may make up as few as 1 in 100 engineers. While the percentage of black engineers is slow, there is some truth in what Miley is saying (it appears). If the numbers above hold up, Twitter may employ roughly 50 percent less blacks than the average engineering business.
That makes what Miley writes somewhat more damning. He recalls:
Personally, a particularly low moment was having my question about what specific steps Twitter engineering was taking to increase diversity answered by the Sr. VP of Eng at the quarterly Engineering Leadership meeting. When he responded with "diversity is important, but we can’t lower the bar." I then realized I was the only African-American in Eng leadership.
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