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Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company's diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley. James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes." He said he's "currently exploring all possible legal remedies."
[...] Earlier on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees that said portions of the memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace." But he didn't say if the company was taking action against the employee. A Google representative, asked about the dismissal, referred to Pichai's memo.
[...] After the controversy swelled, Danielle Brown, Google's new vice president for diversity, integrity and governance, sent a statement to staff condemning Damore's views and reaffirmed the company's stance on diversity. In internal discussion boards, multiple employees said they supported firing the author, and some said they would not choose to work with him, according to postings viewed by Bloomberg News.
"We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company," Brown said in the statement. "We'll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul."
Source: Bloomberg.
[Update: Apparently Julian Assange has offered James Damore a job, saying that "Censorship is for losers". - Fnord666]
Previously: Googler's Memo on Culture of Diversity Extremism Goes Viral Inside Google
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:05AM
Over 4 decades, I've seen the M/F ratio of competent, working engineers go from 1000/1 to 10/1.
Having competent women around definitely improves the outcome for engineering projects.
While that may be a significant improvement, my idea of competent probably wouldn't get you in the door at G.
I can see that 1/1 may not be achievable given Google's standards.
It's not because women aren't able, it seems more that they are not willing, or maybe make a wiser choice on average.
If this says Cherry picking doesn't work, then I see two options.
1) Quash debate, put head in sand, and do the best you can with what you can get.
2) Talk about the issue, decide there is a problem, and then go make more Cherrys.
Perhaps G should be figuring out how to get more kids (especially girls) interested in computers?
That might be a PC way to actually address the problem.