Federal
regulators sue
Palantir over alleged hiring discrimination against Asians
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 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.
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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.
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