Saturday, August 12, 2017

Sundar Pichai - Google's Own Manmohan Singh?

In a scathing piece in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks says that Google CEO Sundar Pichai should step down following his firing of an employee for remarks on women during a discussion of why certain groups (eg. women) are less prevalent in the software industry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sundar-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html


"....this episode suggests he should seek a nonleadership position."
Gee, that sort of sums up how exasperated Indians felt with Manmohan Singh.

1 comment:

Itsdifferent said...

I think you are wrong on this count. Also it shows there are sane people still in US, lot more that too. Did you read the comments in NY Times?

Hope Google board is sane too.