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the fired Google engineer behind the controversial diversity memo is speaking out he claims that Google is trying to smear him and he's threatening legal action against the company in an interview with Bloomberg TV ex-employee James d'amour defended the points he made in his 3,000 word manifesto that went viral and led to him losing his job in it the 28 year old made a case that the gender gap at Google may not exist because of bias or discrimination but rather it's biological reasons that steer women away from the tech field and positions of leadership among his many points he said that women were more prone to neuroticism d'amore said the memo was written a month ago but only now went viral and it led to many of Google's top executives publicly condemning the points made no one high up ever came to me and said no don't do this even though there were many people that looked at it it was only after it got viral that the upper management started shaming me and eventually firing me Google's CEO sundar pichai issued a company-wide response saying that Portia's the memo violated Google's code of conduct by advancing gender stereotypes he wrote quote to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not okay with Bloomberg d'amour accused Google of illegal hiring practices that favored women and minorities he also told the New York Times that he will likely be pursuing legal action Google's pachai cut his family vacation short in order to hold a company-wide meeting on Thursday to address this issue and the firing of d'amore who worked with Google for more than three years I'm Bridget Carey for more head to Cena calm