PhotoSAN FRANCISCO — The United States Department of Labor sued Palantir Technologies, a prominent data analytics start-up, claiming systemic discrimination against Asian job applicants. In its suit, filed on Monday, the Labor Department claimed that Palantir’s hiring processes for software engineering positions placed Asians at a disadvantage. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe suit is a reminder of how diversity issues have dogged Silicon Valley tech companies. The government said Palantir’s behavior with Asian candidates included one example where software engineering jobs drew a pool of more than 1,160 qualified applicants. “The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in 3.4 million,” the Labor Department said in its complaint.

Source: New York Times September 27, 2016 00:00 UTC