This is the same office that is shaking down Palantir for not hiring more than 44% of Asian engineer applicants. Asians only make up 4.4% of the population. Looks like they're trying to find out who's got money at Google.
The percentage of Asians in the population of the United States is irrelevant to the question of whether Palantir discriminates against Asian job applicants because Asians make up a much larger percentage of applicants to Palantir than they do of the general population.
In one case, 130 people applied for a position, 78% of whom were Asian, but only 4 of the 21 people hired were Asian.[1] In another case. 1,160 people applied for a position, 85% of whom were Asian, and only 14 of the 25 people hired were Asian.[2]
Palantir gave a reasonable-sounding response[3], and I don't think there's conclusive evidence that they committed racial discrimination, but I'm not sure why you're so dismissive of the possibility that they might have.
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-palantir-tech-discriminati...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/26/u-s-department-of-labor-su...
[3] http://fortune.com/2016/10/14/palantir-discrimination-lawsui...
How is this relevant? Are you implying that Palantir's engineering team should consist only of 4.4% Asians?
Also, that 4.4% comes from US demographics, right? Should Palantir not consider international applicants?
You got it. Otherwise it is evidence the other 95.6% are being discriminated against. Are you implying that women in tech should not be 50%?
>Should Palantir not consider international applicants?
No it should not.
The same goes for Asians. If 85% of people applying to Palantir are Asian and we continue to assume equality of ability, then 85% of hired applicants should be Asian.
I'm not saying that Palantir is discriminating, these are averages - I'm sure there are tech companies out there where 15% of applicants are Asian but 85% of the work-force is Asian.
Palantir is a business, it's here to make as much money as possible. If it can make more money by also recruiting international applicants, I see no reason why it shouldn't.
Oh, of course! It seems so obvious. I see why so many people say the government is dumb and inefficient now. Why didn't they just check Google's marketing materials, take them at face value, and not want to know anything else in the first place?