A Facebook employee has filed an official complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the company's workplace culture has made it difficult for black people to progress in their careers - a complaint that lends substance to earlier criticism that Facebook's black representation in its workforce is poor. Facebook has approximately 48,000 employees, of which 4% is black, and a lower percentage of 3% is represented at the senior management level. The employee is a recruiter at Facebook who is part of the company's initiative to increase diversity, but alleges that the company has failed to both recruit and promote sufficient numbers of black employees. His complaint is that while he has gotten good performance reviews and has been told he was a "natural leader", that he has faced significant challenges to progressing his career.
See "Facebook employee files racial discrimination complaint with EEOC ", Shannon Bond, NPR, July 6, 2020