Google fires the engineer who wrote that viral memo criticizing its diversity efforts Posted Aug 7, 2017 by Jon Russell ( @jonrussell ) Next Story Google has fired the employee behind a controversial memo on gender diversity that went viral inside the company , as well across Silicon Valley and much of the world’s tech industry. The author, who has been revealed to be Harvard graduate James Damore, confirmed to Bloomberg that he has been terminated from his role as an engineer at Google for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” Google did not confirm the firing. A spokesperson told TechCrunch the company “can’t comment on individual employee cases.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai cut short his summer family holiday following responses to the memo. In a company-wide email, he told staff that “much of what was in that memo is fai...
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