Contentious Memo Strikes Nerve Inside Google and Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/google-engineer-fired-gender-memo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
For a company steeped in a rich history of encouraging
unconventional thinking, the problem was not that he expressed
an unpopular opinion, but a disrespectful one, according to
Yonatan Zunger, who left Google last week after 14 years at
the company to join a start-up. "We have a long history of
disagreement over everything from technical issues to policy
issues to the most mundane aspects of building management, and
over all, that has been tremendously valuable," Mr. Zunger
said in an email. "The problem here was that this was
disrespectful disagreement -- and there's really no respectful
way to say, 'I think you and people like you aren't as
qualified to do your job as people like me."
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I've known Yonatan for years. He's spot on.
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