When April Christina Curley went to bed on the night of Sept. 10, she probably didn’t think she would wake up the next morning and lose her job at Google. But that happened exactly.
Seconds NBC News, Curley announced to a Twitter thread now viral on Monday, she had been fired from her role as a diversity recruiter with the tech giant, though she had been “her most successful” in her company’s history.
Initially started in 2014 to help improve relations between Google and historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), Curley says that before its role, the company had never hired anyone from an HBCU to play a technology role. And can anyone guess why?
Yes, you guessed it. Racism.
Curley then revealed a number of unfair and biased recruitment practices that he considered disproportionately targeted at HBCU students, including “reviewing” student resumes with “unknown” school / university names, leaving degrading comments. and absolutely insulting about students. ultimately, it would result in a rejection at the hiring committee stage and questioning students in interviews about the quality of the computer curriculum they received at their HBCU and criticizing it for “not meeting the bar” in comparison with the elite target. institutions “.
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“The reason Google never hired an HBCU student directly from the career to do one of their key roles in engineering is because they didn’t believe there was talent in these institutions, until I showed up,” Curley wrote in a tweet.
During his time working at the company, Curley insists he defended tirelessly on behalf of HBCU students, although he was constantly met with reaction from his superiors. And, to the contrary, it means denials of promotion and leadership opportunities, compensation cuts, placement in performance improvement plans despite having excellent execution metrics, exclaiming and intentionally excluding oneself from meetings. One of the white women even went so far as to tell Curley that her Baltimore accent was a disability that should have been revealed to her peers. All that he feels, is what eventually led to his downfall in the company.
“I could write for days about all the very racist hiring and hiring practices I saw on Google, WITH RECIPES,” Curley added in a tweet. “Take it from ME, their most successful BLACK QUEER WOMAN recruiter who was shot in the middle of an MF pandemic because they were tired of hearing me scream for their racist shit.”
Right now, Google is 0-2 in terms of treating (or rather, mistreating) its black employees. Earlier this month, The root reported that the company was subject to scrutiny after the dismissal of another of its top executives was announced, Timnit Gebru. Gebru, who co-led Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, said Bloomberg was fired by the head of Google’s AI division in response to an internal email calling for the company’s treatment of minority employees, particularly those who identify as black and female.
NBC News points this out Google has not yet commented on these allegations.