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."

Comments

Re:I hope he pounds the shit out of google

[Vermonter]

And here we see a fine example of the "tolerant liberal"

Re:LOL, crybaby snowflake blames everyone else.

[Anonymous Coward]

You should repeat that a few more times, I'm not certain everyone saw your virtue signal.

Re:Say what you want to say, on your own time

[computational super]

Your wife should get her money back.

Re:$265M Boondoggle

[msauve]

"another aliterate asshole"
You're both alliterate and illiterate.