When April Christina Curley went to bed on the night of September 10, she probably didn’t think she would wake up the next morning and lose her job at Google. But that is exactly what happened.
According NBC News, Curley announced in a now viral Twitter topic on Monday that she had been fired from her role as a diversity recruiter with the tech giant, although she was the “most successful” recruiter in the company’s history.
Initially created in 2014 to help improve relations between Google and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Curley says that before his role – the company never hired anyone from an HBCU to serve in a technology role. And can anyone here guess why?
Yes, you guessed it. Racism.
Curley then revealed a series of unfair and biased hiring practices that she felt were disproportionately targeted at HBCU students, including “‘filtering’ resumes from students with ‘unknown’ school / university names, leaving humiliating and absolutely insulting comments about students which would eventually result in a rejection at the hiring committee stage and questioning students in interviews about the quality of the computer science curriculum they were receiving at their HBCU, and criticizing it for ‘not meeting the requirements’ compared to’ elite ‘, white institutions. ”
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“The reason Google never hired a newly graduated HBCU student for one of their key engineering roles is because they didn’t believe there was talent at these institutions – until I showed up,” wrote Curley in a tweet.
During her time working for the company, Curley insists that she tirelessly advocated on behalf of HBCU students, although she was constantly met with reactions from her superiors. And by negative reaction, it means denial of opportunities for promotion and leadership, cuts in pay, being put into performance improvement plans, despite having great performance metrics, being shouted at and intentionally excluded from meetings. A white manager even told Curley that her Baltimore accent was a disability that should be revealed to her colleagues. All that she feels is what ends up leading her to leave the company.
“I could write FOR DAYS about all the terribly racist recruitment and hiring practices I saw on Google, WITH RECEIPTS”, Curley added in a tweet. “Believe me – your most successful recruiter BLACK QUEER WOMAN, that they fired in the middle of an MF pandemic because they were tired of hearing me complain about their racist bullshit.”
At this point, Google is running 0-2 when it comes to treating (or rather mistreating) its black employees. Earlier this month, The root reported that the company was investigated after news of the resignation of another of its top executives, Timnit Gebru. Gebru, who co-led Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, said Bloomberg she was fired by the head of Google’s AI division in response to an internal email calling attention to the company’s treatment of minority employees, especially those who identify themselves as black and women.
NBC News notes that Google has not yet commented on these allegations.