Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit
by ForHackernews on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:08AM
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> And that was simply diversity even at the cost of spending a lot of money and making some sub-optimal decisions.
That's an interesting take considering how little success Google has had in making their tech workforce more gender diverse.
One cynical view might be that the entire thing is a PR exercise, designed to make it appear that Google cares about gender diversity. For the cost of a small amount of money to write some press releases, and no real changes to their hiring policies, they get some good press and stave off criticism.
Damore's memo threatened this from both sides: it makes it look (or was made to look by adversarial press coverage) like Google is hostile to women, and it also threatens to call attention to the diversity Potemkin village set up by HR.
That's an interesting take considering how little success Google has had in making their tech workforce more gender diverse.
One cynical view might be that the entire thing is a PR exercise, designed to make it appear that Google cares about gender diversity. For the cost of a small amount of money to write some press releases, and no real changes to their hiring policies, they get some good press and stave off criticism.
Damore's memo threatened this from both sides: it makes it look (or was made to look by adversarial press coverage) like Google is hostile to women, and it also threatens to call attention to the diversity Potemkin village set up by HR.