The world’s best tech companies are also the hardest to get into. Thousands of hopefuls apply for every position that’s available, and candidates must have stellar resumes to be noticed by recruiters. Candidates must have relevant experience, and impress existing employees through interview processes that can span months. But at the end of this all, it turns out these employees don’t stay at these top companies for very long. Employees at world’s top tech companies don’t even stay on…

Mean bosses are often cast as villains of the workplace, but real office-related stress might be coming from somewhere a lot more insidious — your own coworkers. Study after study seems to imply that coworkers are responsible for more workplace-related stress than direct managers. A 20 year-long study by Tel Aviv University tracked 820 adults – between the ages of 25 to 65 years – drawn from a wide variety of professional fields. Starting with a…

Last week, Google fired engineer James Damore for penning an internal 10-page memo. In the offending document, Damore had argued that men and women were fundamentally different, and the larger proportion of men in engineering and leadership positions wasn’t necessarily because of discrimination. After the document sparked furious debate within Google, CEO Sundar Pichai stepped in. “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and…

The repercussions of Google’s firing of James Damore are spilling over into the real world. Graffiti slamming Google CEO Sundar Pichai has begun appearing in California. Posters comparing Pichai unfavourably to Steve Jobs were posted on bus stops near Google’s offices in Venice Beach. The posters played on Apple’s “Think Different” tagline — as Steve Jobs was portrayed as saying “Think different”, Pichai was shown as solemnly saying “Not so much”. Spotted outside Google's Venice…

Google’s firing of James Damore has already drawn sharp criticism from the general public, but it’s also been ripped apart in academia. Several academics have stepped in support of Damore, who was fired by Google yesterday for writing a memo in which he argued that Google should hire people based on ability alone. Damore had said that men and women had different biological traits, and more men occupying engineering and leadership positions wasn’t a result of…

Google’s Doodles are one of the company’s most recognizable oddities. Google regularly changes the logo on its site to commemorate important occasions, and these whimsical logos are much-loved and much-shared. But now, ordinary people are creating their own Google Doodles to protest its firing of an engineer who aired his views on diversity. Google today fired James Damore, who’d written a 10-page memo on diversity in tech. Damore, who has a PhD in Biology from…

For someone who wrote a 10 page memo about how biological differences could impact diversity, James Damore sure had the right credentials. Damore, who was fired by Google today for authoring a internal document that talked about how men and women could have differing skill sets, had a glittering resume focusing on Biology. Damore had a BS in Molecular Biology, Physics and Chemistry from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Prior to that, he’d been a Research…