Other work Google has done to attract engineers from underrepresented groups is reaching out to women and minorities with tech skills and make them interested in working there. Since they still need to pass the same hiring practices, and the same continuous fitness evaluation, we have evidence that these engineers from underrepresented groups do measure up to the task.

> What can Google or any other company do to hire more from one group (example, women)

1. Making the workplace less hostile to that group. The code of conduct and this firing both seem to addressing this point.

2. Making sure salaries are equal for equal work. Google might have some problems in this area.

3. Investing in the hiring pipeline (education) to make sure bias isn't occurring earlier in the pipeline.

Those are just a few ideas. Someone really committed to that goal could surely find more ideas.

Help get the underrepresented group involved in tech opportunities and activities early on in life that they wouldn't have otherwise.

Create STEM schools and give kids computers in elementary school. Use more fun robotics in the classroom. Teach programming literacy. Let kids make games.

Of course the caveat to these approaches is that it takes ~13-17 years from kindergarten until high school graduation / college graduation to when the candidate can then use the skills by starting a tech job. That said, I think upstream educational opportunities like these are the best long-term solution to diversifying the tech population.

Focus on the pipeline, k-12, getting girls excited about tech.

Then in a decade you'll have a much wider pool of talent to select from and can just take the best while appeasing diversity advocates.

The same could be done for racial minorities.