James Damore and three others end Google suit

Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by Traster on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:50PM (#23127356)

That's not the only issue. Taking away the political content entirely, storing up all your greivances and airing them in a single document intended to attack the entire purpose of other teams was a stupid thing to do. I've seen people do the same thing with technical issues and it's just totally counter-productive.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by ALittleLight on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:30PM (#23127623)

That's not fair summary of the document at all. In fact Damore was aligned with the purpose of the diversity groups and trying to reason how what is known about different preferences and personalities between men and women could be used to help improve diversity at Google.

For example, Damore's memo has a section where he reasons that one reason women may not be promoted as often is because Google is organized to recognize and reward individual accomplishments rather than participation in groups. Damore theorizes based on cited research that women may be more inclined to contribute in group based settings rather than all alone, and so perhaps aligning promotion to recognize group contributions too would help diversity.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by shadowgovt on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:18PM (#23149107)

> Damore was aligned with the purpose of the diversity groups

I'm curious your source on this information.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by RangerScience on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:34PM (#23128484)

Yup. Like waterfall and agile; it works better to go one-smallest-chunk at a time.

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