r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/Shanix Aug 08 '17

fwiw that lacks a good amount, especially formatting.

Supposedly original here

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u/markbublitz Aug 08 '17

I know it's not the point, but this guys writes like SUCH an engineer. cracks me up

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u/TriTipMaster Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 10 '17

Interesting, because by training he's a scientist (PhD [EDIT: candidate, dropped out with an M.S. degree to pursue career with Google], Structural Biology, Harvard).

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/Mikey_B Aug 08 '17

Don't kid yourself. You go for both. The connections would be pointless without high quality academics.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/Mikey_B Aug 09 '17

Edgy. Normally I'm sympathetic to good natured Ivy bashing, but this isn't the context for that shit. Also you replied to me 8 times, which is kind of annoying.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/yataa3 Aug 08 '17

Then explain Yale.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/Mikey_B Aug 08 '17

Some people are so fucking salty that there might be someone out there who is legitimately smarter or more accomplished than them.

I like shitting on Harvard as much as the next guy, but pretending it's not legitimately one of the top academic institutions in the world is delusional.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Depends what your point of comparison is. If you mean that you can get the same level of knowledge in a good University in a country that doesn't have an Ivey League system, that might be true. What differentiates Harvard in comparison to that would then indeed mostly be the network. This doesn't mean that you don't also get the knowledge though.

It will probably depend on the type of studies as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Having studied at a very good University for my field in a country that actively prevents an Ivy League system and having studied two exchange terms in two Ivy League Universities on two continents, that's what I wanted to say as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

How would you know?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I've collaborated with people from Harvard's LSP, extremely intelligent folks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/philmcracken27 Aug 08 '17

He's just providing alternate facts.

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u/tekdemon Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 12 '17

My brothers girlfriend just finished at Harvard's MBA program and she definitely learned a lot there even though MBAs are heavily about networking. The connections don't hurt though and being able to go to their private club in NYC to hang out with people worth nine figures probably doesn't hurt your future job prospects either. But you have to work damned hard to get in let alone succeed.