Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai A Google engineer has been fired following the release of a now-infamous manifesto against diversity . The engineer confirmed to Bloomberg he was fired Monday. His manifesto caused tremendous shockwaves across Google and the larger tech industry.
A source confirmed the firing, but a Google spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters.
The news of the engineer's firing comes shortly after Recode reported on a company-wide memo from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, which indicated that portions of the manifesto might violate the company's code of conduct. A Google spokesperson confirmed the Pichai memo's authenticity.
Specifically, Pichai objects to the author's claims that biological differences make women less well-suited for careers in tech. Pichai suggests that this portion of the manifesto was "not OK," and that it went too far "by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace."
"To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK," Pichai wrote.
The ten-page manifesto first became public knowledge on Saturday, following a report from Vice's Motherboard . A full copy of the manifesto was released by Gizmodo later that day .
