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Without stating anything regarding the merit's of Damore's arguments either way:

There is a long tradition of this kind of memo inside Google. Many products you probably use every day are better because of one or another.

This genre is not exactly encouraged, but lots of good stuff comes out of them.

Whatever else that memo was, the genre is common, and the genre itself not considered mutinous within Google.




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