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09-27-2016, 03:15 AM
Federal regulators sue Palantir over alleged hiring discrimination against Asians
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The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Palantir on Monday, alleging the secretive security firm discriminated against job applicants of Asian descent.
The agency said in the complaint (https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20160926_0.pdf) that the company routinely denied qualified Asian candidates who applied to its software engineering division early in the hiring process while advancing their equally experienced **n-Asian counterparts.
SEE ALSO: The highest rent in the U.S. belongs to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/vcs-silicon-valley-highest-rent/)
In the case of one engineering internship, the filing said, Palantir selected 17 **n-Asian candidates and just four Asians from a pool of 130 applicants, nearly three quarters of whom were Asian. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/palantir-lawsuit-department-of-labor/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Palantir on Monday, alleging the secretive security firm discriminated against job applicants of Asian descent.
The agency said in the complaint (https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20160926_0.pdf) that the company routinely denied qualified Asian candidates who applied to its software engineering division early in the hiring process while advancing their equally experienced **n-Asian counterparts.
SEE ALSO: The highest rent in the U.S. belongs to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/vcs-silicon-valley-highest-rent/)
In the case of one engineering internship, the filing said, Palantir selected 17 **n-Asian candidates and just four Asians from a pool of 130 applicants, nearly three quarters of whom were Asian. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/palantir-lawsuit-department-of-labor/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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