Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg report, in which the recently fired employee has been interviewed: James Damore, who until Monday worked as an engineer on video and image search at Alphabet's Mountain View, California, headquarters, said he initially shared the 3,300-word memo internally a month ago. But it was only after the memo went viral that company leaders banded together to make him an outcast, he said on Bloomberg TV. When he initially circulated the memo, "no one high up ever came to me and said, 'No, don't do this,' even though there were many people who looked at it," Damore said. "It was only after it got viral that upper management started shaming me and eventually firing me." The memo, which was leaked to the public over the weekend, argues that conservative viewpoints are suppressed at Google and that biological differences between men and women explain in part why so few women work in software engineering. Even if someone in Google management had agreed with some of the arguments put forth in his piece, they wouldn't have felt safe speaking up, he said. "There was a concerted effort among upper management to have a very clear signal that what I did was harmful and wrong and didn't stand for Google," Damore said. "It would be career suicide for any executives or directors to support me."

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Good.

[dAzED1]

"It would be career suicide for any executives or directors to support me" - as it should be. There's being non-"PC" and then there's just being a sexist ass, and he was very clearly the later. BTW, high level execs don't tend to read every single letter every single lowly employee writes; that's not what they get paid the big bucks to do. They didn't respond for a few weeks, because it was below their radar - as an employee's ramblings normally should be.

Re:LOL, crybaby snowflake blames everyone else.

[Lord Kano]

1. Racism and Sexism have historically have not been considered political or religious speech.

Saying that minorities/women are universally inferior and incapable of doing the same quality of work as white men is racism/sexism and not generally protected as political speech.
Saying that one disagrees with one particular implementation of affirmative action because it devalues the accomplishments of high performing minorities/women while benefiting the mediocre IS a political position.

2. Whistle blowing a policy to increase diversity, that people seem to know about, isn't whistle blowing.

Whistle blowing is about exposing illegal/immoral activity. Increasing diversity isn't a factor in it.

Google has deep pockets and there are lawyers salivating over this case.

This guy was a lowly engineer, they're going to have a hard time Brendan Eiching this guy.

LK