The View | Controversial Google sacking shows hypocrisy and discrimination still plague the tech industry
Google CEO fires employee who wrote memo last week criticising its diversity initiatives, just as it battles an embarrassing wage discrimination investigation which shows it pays women less than men in comparable job roles
Google fired an employee who wrote a memo last week criticising its diversity initiatives.
No, it is not the same mission statement that Tom Cruise conjured after a restless night in Jerry Maguire.
But, like the film it immediately unravelled the career its author, who has added fuel to the bonfire of hypocrisy and discrimination plaguing the tech industry.
This week, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, tried to decisively end the controversy over the memo that went viral and that was threatening to engulf his company.
He fired the employee and writer James Damore. This placed all the stakeholders into the middle of one of Silicon Valley’s most heated debates.
The ten page memo, entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” comes as the company battles an embarrassing wage discrimination investigation by the US Department of Labor, which has discovered that Google consistently pays women less than men in comparable job roles.