Indian-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been into many debates recently due to his fast decision to fire James Damore and he still said that he does not regret firing James Damore, a former employee who was ousted from the company last year for criticising the tech giant for its diversity policy.
At one side where James openly listed the harsh factors behind Google’s diversity policy (whether accurate or not) Sudar Pichai delivered him a full-blown spree of rectification and added that he is proud of firing James and holds his decisions as one of his best.
It has have been quite some time since then, and the Google CEO stills seem to stand firm on his decision.
When asked about Google’s decision to fire Damore during an interview with MSNBC, Pichai said:
I don’t regret it. It was the right decision.
The last thing we do when we make decisions like this is to look at it through a political lens.
-Pichai told the TV show hosts late on Friday.
Damore, who was ousted for writing a 10-page anti-diversity memo last year, filed a class-action lawsuit against Google this month, claiming that it discriminates against white men. And, it was taken in a polarised spectrum by most of the world as the conjugated debate spread on whether a political angle for defining a backend corporate policy that attracts a global audience is legitimate or not.
Further, many people said it was the anguish of James that took him to take this fast step and defame Google to whatever extent possible.
Damore had also sued Google after his firing and in his lawsuit filed in a California court, he said that Google ostracised, belittled and punished him and a fellow plaintiff.
He added:
I and others who share his views at Google long have been singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights.
The former Google employee also wrote an op-ed titled Why I Was Fired by Google in the Wall Street Journal in August last year. Pichai had earlier described Damore’s memo as offensive.
