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Leaking Damore's memo worked exactly as the leaker almost certainly intended, as Cromwell points out below: It got him fired, which is what many Googlers were demanding internally before it became public.


And do you think that Googlers shouldn't be mad at the leaker?


I definitely know of both Googlers happy it leaked and Googlers upset it leaked. At 70,000 some-odd employees, "Googlers" isn't a homogenous group.

Google, as a corporate entity, definitely did not gain from the leak, and certainly would've preferred it not leak.


You implied that the attitude towards discouraging leaks is cultish, but it seems rational to me.




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