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$3.8 million for over 5000 employees affected by discrimination against female and asian software engineers? Where are the condemnation and marches against this systemic injustice against marginalized groups?

$3.8 million is just pocket lint to Google. The sum is so low, it's like someone walking by and ignoring a penny on the ground.

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The fact that they only found discrimination worth 5 million means that they found no evidence that discrimination is a huge issue at Google.

I am no longer at Google so I guess I can say my opinion (after ~10 great years). I believe there to be close to zero discrimination from higher ups, except the random sexual harassment of course but I think that will always happen in a place with power imbalances like the American right to work states and 100k employees.

I did see a lot of discrimination/harassment (a lot still being very rare, but a lot more than I expected) at lower levels. It was usually dealt with swiftly by HR. Unless it was a "superstar" of course.

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