For me, the interesting thing is how this was overlooked by almost everyone that read the statistics. People just saw large amounts of white people and of men in the data, and jumped to the "obvious" usual conclusion about overrepresentation. The data vaguely fits the narrative, so people quickly moved past the data and fell into the usual talking points.
Instead, the interesting thing in the data is the large amount of overrepresentation of Asian people. There's nothing wrong with that, but perhaps the sense that overrepresentation is a sign of wrongness that is the cause of people being afraid to mention it or focus on it.
Overall, the group most overrepresented in tech (judging from google's numbers and others) are Asian men. Yet, because the overall political narrative is focused elsewhere, that will remain un-remarked upon.
As someone pointed out above, the hiring pool for google is global. Especially focused on the population of graduate students in CS and related courses in US colleges. If you look at the data from that perspective, you'd find that Asians are in fact under-represented in Google's (US) work-force :-)
Instead, the interesting thing in the data is the large amount of overrepresentation of Asian people. There's nothing wrong with that, but perhaps the sense that overrepresentation is a sign of wrongness that is the cause of people being afraid to mention it or focus on it.
Overall, the group most overrepresented in tech (judging from google's numbers and others) are Asian men. Yet, because the overall political narrative is focused elsewhere, that will remain un-remarked upon.