Damore went from intern to pariah in Google tenure ended by memo

San Francisco

IN THE course of just a few days, the Google engineer fired on Monday over his 3,300-word memo on gender differences and the tech industry has become a rallying point for almost everyone: a pariah to some, a martyr to others.

James Damore was a software engineer at the search giant's Mountain View headquarters until Monday afternoon, when he said he was fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes" in his manifesto. It was published internally to Google employees late last week and argued that conservative viewpoints are suppressed at Google and that biological differences explain in part why more men work in software engineering than women.