Damore, whose online memo has broken Google and lighted a political firestorm, told News that Google is “handling people separately based on race or gender.”
The organization “is holding individual managers to enhance diversity” and is “using race or gender” to decide which workers are encouraged and which teams job candidates are placed on, Damore said.
He also told he is “pursuing legal remedies” against the organization over his firing.
Google, through a spokesperson, refused to comment.
Damore was fired last week after 3 1/2 years as an engineer over a column he wrote discussing that amongst the reasons there are so few women in technology were gender-based choices and characteristics.
He wrote the memo after visiting what he termed “a private diversity summit” at the organization.
Damore told he “was very surprised” at his firing because he “was just attempting to help” the business fix what he felt was a problem.
Google’s management, though, said the memo raised harmful gender institutions and violated its code of conduct.
Damore said it was “hard to regret” giving the memo because he hopes any good comes out of it. But he said “I wouldn’t have used the word ‘neuroticism'” to describe female engineers.
In his 10-page memo, addressed a month ago, Damore called Alphabet unit Google an “echo chamber.”
Yet by the close of last week, in an evaluation piece in the Wall Street Journal, he said the organization was “almost like a cult.”
Still, his critique of his former employer was slightly muted. “I support Google…I don’t support anyone who wants to hurt Google,” Damore told News, continuing that he doesn’t recommend anyone calling for a protest on the company.
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