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– A few weeks ago, Google found itself in the middle of a controversy over the departure of Dr. Timnit Gebru, who claims to have been fired after sending an email criticizing the company. Now, a second black woman who worked for Google is criticizing, and she says she has “the receipts” to prove that she herself was unfairly fired. Calling herself Google’s “most successful diversity recruiter in history”, April Christina Curley started Twitter Monday to tell her side of the story. She says the company “fired” her in September, after she was solely responsible for recruiting students at HBCUs. Curley writes that despite her “stellar” performance on her part, “I was repeatedly denied promotions, had my pay cut, put into performance improvement plans, denied leadership opportunities, I screamed, [and] intentionally excluded from meetings. ”
Curley also says that one of her managers (female and white) told her that her strong Baltimore accent was a “handicap” that she should reveal at internal meetings and that “she never felt comfortable supporting my work because she felt ‘intimidated’ ‘for me and therefore never considered me for leadership opportunities. “Curley says he has more information about” the terribly racist recruitment and hiring practices I saw on Google “, but he’ll leave those anecdotes for later. NBC News has more about other complaints this year about diversity at Google, where black women make up 0.7% of the tech workforce. “We saw what happens to black women at Google who struggle with the status quo,” an employee told NBC. “They are usually forced to leave the company.” A Google representative tells Business Insider that the company has a “large team of recruiters” working to attract HBCU students, adding, “We do not agree with the way April describes his dismissal, but it is not appropriate for us to provide comments on his claims. “Gebru itself also answered to Curley’s story, calling it a “heartbreaking story”. (Read more stories from Google.)