Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams gender differences memo

James Damore, a software engineer for the company, wrote an internal memo saying that women are biologically less suited than men to be engineers.

More than half of Google’s employees believe former search engineer James Damore shouldn’t have been fired, according to polls. The parts that drew much of the outrage made such assertions as women “prefer jobs in social and artistic areas” and have a “lower stress tolerance” and “harder time” leading, while more men “may like coding because it requires systemizing”.

Another employee said she feels comfortable discussing the diversity program with colleagues “but I’m in the majority that thinks they’re fair and necessary”. “The goal of the case is to not only get Google to change its practices, but to encourage other Silicon Valley companies to change their pay practices as well”.

According to Damore, he wrote his manifesto on a 12-hour flight returning from a diversity training in China that was just WAYY TOO DIVERSE for the admitted conservative’s tastes.

“After a while, it just became exhausting”, she said.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has canceled an all-hands meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon to address the diversity controversy that has dogged the company for most of the past week.

Others have alleged that the culture at Google is hostile to women and hampers their chances to advance their careers at the company. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to Twitter to offer Damore a job. Gab.ai, a far-right social network, also offered Damore a job, calling his writing “a attractive work of art”. One group set up a crowdfunding page for Damore that’s raised more than $28,000.

Finberg said, “In my experience, having 70 people call you when you put up a post about a company is a very large outpouring of dissatisfaction”. At Alphabet, which has almost 76,000 employees, Mr. Damore’s firing has posed a test for how employees’ views compare with their co-workers’, inflaming feelings still raw from the divisive presidential election, employees said. An online resume says he was a competitive chess player and held research positions at Harvard, Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While Damore has not responded to attempts by USA TODAY to request an interview, he has done two lengthy interviews with hosts of right-wing YouTube channels, as well as one short interview with Bloomberg TV.