Google's staff worldwide still overwhelmingly white and Asian men

In the US in 2014 just 2% of Google's workers were black people and 3% were Hispanic, and only 18% of technology jobs are held by women

Google is largely failing to diversify its workforce beyond white and Asian men even though it hired women to fill one in every five of its openings for computer programmers and other high-paying technology jobs last year.

The imbalanced picture emerged in a demographic breakdown that Google released on Monday. The report underscored the challenges that Google and most other major technology companies face as they try to add more women, black people and Hispanics to their payrolls after many years of primarily relying on the technical skills of white and Asian men.