Question of the Day: Do you think the employee should have been fired?
Silicon Valley's efforts to promote workforce diversity haven't yielded many results - unless you count a backlash at Google, where a male engineer blamed biological differences for the paucity of female programmers.
Bloomberg reported late Monday that the employee was fired and that the engineer confirmed in an email that is dismissal was for "perpetuating gender stereotypes."
His widely shared memo, titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," also criticizes Google for pushing mentoring and diversity programs and for "alienating conservatives."
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