It&#x27;s very likely that the employee roster in those companies mirror the ethnic makeup of the country quite closely. That is not to say that minority groups in many other countries don&#x27;t also suffer from discrimination in the labour market due to socioeconomic marginalization, religious differences, etc.<p>But to dismiss this issue in Silicon Valley by pointing at other countries is besides the point here. SV by and large is the most well known tech hub, and notorious for waxing poetic about its meritocratic structure. That is what is at issue here; is it a true meritocracy, or are there enough confounding factors (recruiting at specific schools for instance) that end up resulting in a workforce that doesn&#x27;t reflect the racial&#x2F;ethnic&#x2F;demographic makeup of the country in which it exists?