A document entitled
A document entitled « Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber » in which an employee strongly criticizes the company’s efforts towards diversity and equality has gone viral. The opinionated article was written by an unnamed senior software engineer, and it accuses Google of political bias while calling for great « ideological diversity. »
The document has been dubbed a « manifesto » and it went viral within Google. It was shared internally on a mailing list, and several Google employees tweeted about its existence. It did not take long for the rant — which attributes the gender gap in technology to biological differences between the sexes — to go public, and for Google to attempt to distance itself from the contents.
Weighing in at some 10 pages, the document — first reported by Motherboard — is a fairly lengthy one. The author recognizes that many people will not take the time to read through it in its entirety, and therefore took the time to include a TL; DR, bullet-pointed version at the beginning:
Responding to the document, Google’s vice president of Diversity, Integrity & Governance, Danielle Brown, said to Motherboard that it is « not a viewpoint that I or this company endorses, promotes or encourages. » She also says:
Google’s vice president of engineering, Ari Balogh, also responded to the document, saying:
With so many technology companies now desperately focused on trying to improve diversity and equality in the workplace, the document provides and interesting insight into how such schemes are viewed from the inside.
The full text of the document can be read on Gizmodo .
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