Comment by skinkestek
1 year ago
No need to go to that extreme I think.
Just letting ordinary employees experiment with it and leave honest feedback on it knowing they were safe and not risking the boot could have exposed most of these problems.
But Google couldn't even manage to not fire that bloke who very politely mentioned that women and men think differently. I think a lot of people realized there and then that if they wanted to keep their jobs at Google, they better not say anything that offends the wrong folks.
I was in their hiring pipeline at that point. It certainly changed how I felt about them.
Why would any employee believe that "honest feedback" was safe after James Demore?
Exactly.
I don't know how they can get there. But if they could somehow manage to restore trust they wouldn't need to approach the weirdest/craziest part of the internet to learn that their image generation was awful.