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Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by cpks »

samfisher83 wrote: post #5

If this is true and the recruiter has emails to back up his case it should be a pretty easy case to win. According to the the rules: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It should also be a massive fine.

I can't speak for this situation, but I was involved in situations with corporate crime at high levels. People were very cognizant of what was in email and what was verbal.

When I considered whistleblowing -- what started as little spiraled out of control -- and looked over evidence, there was very little.

One attorney at the company was fired for putting the wrong thing in writing.

Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by Unkechaug »

jsmeaton wrote: post #3
2aa07e2 wrote: post #2

> In April of 2017, Google’s Technology Staffing Management team was instructed by Alogna to immediately cancel all Level 3 (0-5 years experience) software engineering interviews with every single applicant who was not either female, Black, or Hispanic and to purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline. Plaintiff refused to comply with this request. Good for him. Google is now exc…

It sounds like it was one manager. Is that all you need to blacklist an entire company?

I doubt this single incident alone is the reason, but maybe the catalyst. Google and its unhealthy lust for diversity has been an increasingly frequent topic. Hell, someone got fired for posting an anti diversity rant last year. While his arguments were weak or flat out wrong, it's clear that Google is making a point to single out underrepresented minorities to the detriment of others who may actually be better candidates.

Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by rayiner »

hunta2097 wrote: post #13
samfisher83 wrote: post #5

If this is true and the recruiter has emails to back up his case it should be a pretty easy case to win. According to the the rules: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It should also be a massive fine.

I have recently left tenure at a large telecoms company in the UK. They definitely had a practice of encouraging female hires. Even if they weren't the best fit for the role. Don't get me wrong, I am not approaching this in a sexist way - on the contrary I have worked with excellent and poor colleagues of both sexes. I think it diminishes the accomplishments of genuinely great minority/female employees to have this p…

Except that’s not what we get right now. We have qualified women driven away from the profession because of all the unwanted attention and hurdles that come along wit being a minority at work.

In my profession (corporate law) we get a balanced gender distribution of applicants at the entry level. But that’s because of aggressive efforts to recruit women, as well as lawsuits, in the 1980s and 1990s, to counteract the long history of discrimination (the field as 95% men in the 1960s). If people back then hadn’t done that, we wouldn’t be getting the “best person” today. We’d be getting the subset of the best people who were willing to put up with a highly gender skewed environment.

Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by bitL »

So, if one starts injecting large quantities of melanin into skin, renaming themselves to Hispanic-sounding name and undergoing "private parts" surgery, would that give them super high chance of being employed by Google? I bet in the next 5 years this will be becoming pretty popular in Silicon Valley :D Life truly is either a comedy when viewed from outside, or tragedy, when viewed from inside :DDD

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Post by nugi »

organsnyder wrote: post #15
fwdpropaganda wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, from the outside it is often hard to tell what is one manager and what is company culture.

For any organization this size, assume that there is a fair amount of variance from one division to another.

I hold all organizations responsible for their own actions, reguardless of size. Too big to fail is a poor concept, logically, ethically.

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Post by kapauldo »

Unkechaug wrote: post #22
jsmeaton wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like it was one manager. Is that all you need to blacklist an entire company?

I doubt this single incident alone is the reason, but maybe the catalyst. Google and its unhealthy lust for diversity has been an increasingly frequent topic. Hell, someone got fired for posting an anti diversity rant last year. While his arguments were weak or flat out wrong, it's clear that Google is making a point to single out underrepresented minorities to the detriment of others who may actually be better candi…

Diversity is a noble goal not a corrupt one.

Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by spamizbad »

samfisher83 wrote: post #5

If this is true and the recruiter has emails to back up his case it should be a pretty easy case to win. According to the the rules: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It should also be a massive fine.

Contrary to what many people think, employee discrimination suits are quite difficult to win, as the courts tend to favor corporations. It's not uncommon for a lawsuit that, to a layperson, might seem like a slam-dunk, fail or even get thrown out.

Complicating matters for the plaintiff is that Google has a disproportionate number of white and Asian men in both its overall employment and in leadership positions.

Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

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Post by wand3r »

> In a statement, Google said that it would “vigorously defend this lawsuit,” adding that it has a “clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity. At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products.”

This sounds contradictory.

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