[HN Gopher] Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in...
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       Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff
       meeting
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2025-02-16 22:32 UTC (28 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | belter wrote:
       | https://archive.is/3FGOH
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029086
        
       | AlexErrant wrote:
       | Of particular note:
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       | > Parker said that, as a federal contractor, the company has been
       | reviewing all of its programs and initiatives in response to
       | Donald Trump's executive orders that direct federal agencies and
       | contractors to dismantle DEI work.
        
       | blackeyeblitzar wrote:
       | > "What's not changing is we've always hired the best person for
       | the job," she said, according to a recording of the meeting the
       | Guardian reviewed.
       | 
       | This is obviously a lie. Google's more senior leaders had (and
       | probably still have) quotas for hiring and promotions. If you
       | didn't hit quotas, not only did you face intense pressure to
       | artificially skew things when HR reviewed numbers, but your
       | performance (and compensation) would also be affected. Many
       | people have privately talked about this, but most are afraid to
       | speak up, due to the aggression of the progressive employees and
       | the official DEI machine (from HR).
       | 
       | I wonder if Sundar will be brave enough to admit fault in how
       | they handled the past, instead of just pretending nothing is
       | changing. I am reminded of James Damore's situation - he
       | discussed something controversial in a polite way, with sources
       | backing up his ideas, but was viciously attacked inside Google
       | and also outside. News media regularly misrepresented what he
       | said. His firing was unfair. That was just one example of how the
       | company operated all this time. If that's changing, they should
       | own up to it.
        
       | miohtama wrote:
       | For the reporting bias reference, The Guardian is leftish UK
       | newspaper. They generally hate big tech, love DEI.
        
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