Google's Ideological Echo Chamber Critical Analysis

Comparing a memo called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” written by James Damore and an email sent by Sundar Pichai titled “Our Words Matter,” I was able to depict the difference between an employee failing at an attempt to close the gender gap, and a leader that respects his employees’ ideologies. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the intentions, mistakes, and strengths of Damore, how Pichai showed leadership, how social media impact Google and other companies, and how the Internet impacts people and organizations.
James Damore intended to prove to other ‘Googlers’ that there was a skewed dynamic of the company. He tried to show that technical fields should be promoted to any person no matter how diverse and each person should have equal opportunity to participate in whatever a company or has to offer. In doing so, he had decent elements in his memo. At the beginning of the entire note, he states “If we can't have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem.”; which is probably one matter he was trying to discuss. With this, he used sub comments to clarify definitions to ensure readers had a clear understanding. Another example of simplicity to convey his
The entire disagreement was handled professionally and Pichia gave Google a superior reputation by taking action, standing by his word as a leader, and making a decision that best suited the company and its employees. By sending out the memo, he was able to show the public there was going to be change because Google supports the people and would not let the disturbance of one unruly employee tarnish their name. As a result, the public was able to compare and dissect both memos and discuss or argue with peers on the Internet to determine who was in the