Former Google engineer James Damore said he shared the 3,300-word memo internally a month ago. But it was only after the memo went viral that company leaders banded together to make him an outcast, he said on Bloomberg TV. Even if someone in Google management had agreed with some of the arguments put forth in his piece, they wouldn’t have felt safe speaking up, he said. “There was a concerted effort among upper management to have a very clear signal that what I did was harmful and wrong and didn’t stand for Google,” Damore said. Challenged about the message women would take from his memo, Damore maintained that his views won’t discourage young girls who are considering going into software engineering.

Source: Mint August 10, 2017 05:55 UTC