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
#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 excluded from the "dream" companies I'd want to work for.
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#3> 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?
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#4> 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?
That happens every day, in every industry. That's why selecting managers is so important.
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#5If 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.
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#6Fuck google
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#7> 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?
To be fair, from the outside it is often hard to tell what is one manager and what is company culture.
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#8> 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?
If he was fired over it, absolutely.
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#9Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
Re: Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
#10It looks like the dam is breaking on lawsuits against Google.
Google will not settle, it will attract the worst kinds of lawyers, unless discovery for them is worse.