James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
Honestly, this whole thing is just ugly. I read what he wrote. It was (mostly) ugly but contained a lot of truth.<p>Before you downvote&#x2F;call me a Nazi, I&#x27;m a mixed race woman in tech.<p>I definitely see people hired just because of their minority status. I also see people hired who are minorities but also great at their job. It&#x27;s not a binary pattern. But those who are hired just because they are a POC or female, yet are terrible at their job stand out. People notice it, but few say it.<p>Our company recently hired a black woman as a &quot;Software Engineer&quot; who can&#x27;t write a SQL statement. She has a &quot;taken some tutorials&quot; level of programming skill as far as I have noticed and produces things very, very slow. People notice this, and it makes them angry. I&#x27;m sure the other engineers talk about this even more when I&#x27;m not in the room. Our boss is proud of how much he is &quot;making the team diverse&quot; yet it&#x27;s only going to cause problems for the team.<p>I like to think I was hired based on my skillset, not to improve the numbers. I&#x27;ve worked hard to get here. People likely forget or don&#x27;t care how &quot;diverse&quot; I am when I am working because I produce. And I fully support bringing in diverse candidates, it&#x27;s essential to get those viewpoints, so long as they are a qualified candidate to start with.<p>I do think that men and women are biologically different and, it likely does contribute to a lack of interest in tech from women. Almost all of the women from my social circle are smart, pragmatic, driven and successful yet have zero interest in a technical career. They excel in their given industries but ours they want no part of. I don&#x27;t believe intelligence is more prevalent in either gender, but I do believe there are some traits that shape who we are.<p>That&#x27;s something that&#x27;s rarely addressed, for fear of being ostracized.<p>As far as his &quot;conservative white male&quot; discrimination claims, I&#x27;ve seen that too. My boss specifically requested candidates that are not middle-aged white males. But it&#x27;s nowhere near the same level of discrimination that people of color or women have endured for decades. Perhaps the reason people don&#x27;t feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an &quot;old school&quot; company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It&#x27;s not that way for white guys, sorry.