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Atlanta's a bit down from 67% in 1990, but 54% ain't so bad.

In one of the most reasonably-priced major cities of America, a ten-minute walk from one of the world's top ten engineering colleges, Google has an office. It's one floor. There are no mass outings to the Fox Theatre, let alone Broadway. Food is served from 1200 to 1330, though mainly gone by 1300. Let it be noted that this food includes traditional African-American fare, something I've seen in other Google offices only during special events celebrating our self-congratulating focus on diversity. There are more black people in this office than I've seen in our NYC building, unless one counts custodial ~~roles~~. There are three engineers, one of whom is black. That doesn't seem like many, except that I know precisely one black engineer on my entire ninth floor of Google NYC.

In one of the most reasonably-priced major cities of America, a ten-minute walk from one of the world's top ten engineering colleges, Google has an office. It's one floor. There are no mass outings to the Fox Theatre, let alone Broadway. Food is served from 1200 to 1330, though mainly gone by 1300. Let it be noted that this food includes traditional African-American fare, something I've seen in other Google offices only during special events celebrating our self-congratulating focus on diversity. There are more black people in this office than I've seen in our NYC building, unless one counts custodial staff. There are three engineers, one of whom is black. That doesn't seem like many, except that I know precisely one black engineer on my entire ninth floor of Google NYC.

There were once dozens of SWEs and SREs in this office, humming along, doing well. Google decided to close Atlanta engineering, and they mainly went as a group to Square. A recent TGIF explicitly mentioned the importance of recruiting Atlanta; it's too bad we can't go all the way and actually hire ATLiens.

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 Atlanta's a bit down from 67% in 1990, but 54% ain't so bad.
-In one of the most reasonably-priced major cities of America, a ten-minute walk from one of the world's top ten engineering colleges, Google has an office. It's one floor. There are no mass outings to the Fox Theatre, let alone Broadway. Food is served from 1200 to 1330, though mainly gone by 1300. Let it be noted that this food includes traditional African-American fare, something I've seen in other Google offices only during special events celebrating our self-congratulating focus on diversity. There are more black people in this office than I've seen in our NYC building, unless one counts custodial roles. There are three engineers, one of whom is black. That doesn't seem like many, except that I know precisely one black engineer on my entire ninth floor of Google NYC.
+In one of the most reasonably-priced major cities of America, a ten-minute walk from one of the world's top ten engineering colleges, Google has an office. It's one floor. There are no mass outings to the Fox Theatre, let alone Broadway. Food is served from 1200 to 1330, though mainly gone by 1300. Let it be noted that this food includes traditional African-American fare, something I've seen in other Google offices only during special events celebrating our self-congratulating focus on diversity. There are more black people in this office than I've seen in our NYC building, unless one counts custodial staff. There are three engineers, one of whom is black. That doesn't seem like many, except that I know precisely one black engineer on my entire ninth floor of Google NYC.
 There were once dozens of SWEs and SREs in this office, humming along, doing well. Google decided to close Atlanta engineering, and they mainly went as a group to Square. A recent TGIF explicitly mentioned the importance of recruiting Atlanta; it's too bad we can't go all the way and actually hire ATLiens.

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