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Ein Bericht aus der woken Unternehmenskultur bei Google

Nachdem die künstliche Intelligenz von Google so darauf ausgerichtet war, schwarze Menschen in jedes Bild zu bringen, auch als Nazi-Soldaten, wurde noch einmal deutlich, dass die dortige Unternehmenskultur sehr woke ist.

Das war ja auch bei dem Vorfall um Damore ersichtlich, hier wird weiteres dazu ausgeführt:

David Kiferbaum, a Google business manager who worked at the company from 2015 to 2023, said he experienced pressure to recruit minorities after Damore was fired. He said he began hearing things like “We’re really looking for diverse candidates for this role,” which he took to mean “a non-white, a non-hetero” applicant.

“I was like, ‘Whoa, I can’t believe this person is saying this out loud,’ ” he said.

Maguire says at first, he supported initiatives to hire more diverse candidates—until he realized his colleagues were pushing to prioritize applicants’ race and gender over their qualifications for the jobs. He said a diversity working group at Google Ventures, which formed around the second half of 2017, started making “unreasonable demands.”

“The demands included the insistence that senior leaders hire at least two additional female general partners—which is the senior role I was promised I’d get once I reached three years with the company,” Maguire said. “One of those hires, the group demanded, needed to happen within six months. If leadership refused, about a quarter of the firm, or 20 people out of the 80 employees at Google Ventures, threatened to quit.”

Erstaunlich, dass sich Google erpressen lassen kann. Ein Konzern von dieser Größe und sie lassen sich von ihren Mitarbeitern auf der Nase herum tanzen. Vermutlich fürchtete man eher, dass es dann heißt, dass man zu sexistisch war und keine Frau befördern wollte, aber trotzdem.

Maguire says he believed hiring a female general partner was “a good goal, but they were trying to force a timeline that would ultimately lead to lowering standards. Hiring general partners into a venture firm is a very hard, laborious process, because the positions are so senior and require finding the right fit. The hiring process normally takes anywhere between one to two years.”

But, Maguire said, within a year Ventures’ CEO, “like all of the senior leadership across Google, proved to be spineless in the face of these employee threats. Within a year, he hired a new female general partner, who was really smart but who wasn’t qualified for the job. Because of her lack of experience, she was never treated on the same level as the other general partners, which I believe was ultimately unfair to her.”

Da sieht man auch dann wieder die Nachteile solcher Aktivisten. Ob das Ergebnis gut ist ist egal, Hauptsache eine Frau wird befördert. Und es passt zu den Filmen über Frauen, die kein Training brauchen, sondern einfach automatisch besser sind als alle Männer – leider passiert das in der realen Welt nicht. Aber der Gedanke, dass man Zeit und Training braucht und sich der bessere durchsetzt ist ja auch sexistisch.

“Meanwhile, over the next two years, I started to notice the dynamics of our team change. Instead of highly experienced founders and seasoned investors, young people from minority backgrounds were coming in with virtually no investment experience whatsoever,” Maguire recalled. “In this time, Ventures promoted a 25-year-old black woman to investment partner—the same position I held at the time—who had not yet made a single investment decision in her entire career.”

Man versteht, warum Elon Musk so viel Personal abbauen konnte, als er Twitter übernommen hat. Anscheinend ist Google zu reich um die Folgen dieser Politik schon zu merken, aber ich vermute mal irgendwann wird sich eine Situation ergeben, bei der der Wettbewerb intensiver wird und man umdenken muss.

When asked for comment, a Google Ventures spokesperson told The Free Press: “These claims from Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire regarding his time at GV from 2016–2019 are baseless and factually inaccurate. GV’s decisions around hiring and promotion are solely based on merit and ability.”

Multiple ex-staffers told us they were expected to express their progressive bona fides in the workplace wherever possible.

Natürlich ist die Frage, wer Recht hat. Aber die Ergebnisse auch bei der künstlichen Intelligenz sprechen schon dafür.