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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by jlebar on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:31AM (#14955370)
There is no way that that a survey indicating that 40% of employees agree with the document is representative of Google as a whole. Google has 75k employees, nearly all of whom are aware of this incident, and a comment below suggests that the survey had <300 responses.

Indeed, a chief complaint in the manifesto is that Google is overwhelmingly liberal. Even the author of the manifesto recognized that his was a fringe position at Google.

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by emanreus on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:46AM (#14956090)
> the survey had <300 responses

Given the repercussions that's a surprisingly high number.

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ljk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:35AM (#14955398)
> * Google has 75k employees*

not 75k engineers right?