YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males for technical positions because they didn’t help the world’s largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity, according to a civil lawsuit filed by a former employee.

The lawsuit, filed by Arne Wilberg, a white male who worked at Google for nine years, including four years as a recruiter at YouTube, alleges the division of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -2.94% Google set quotas for hiring minorities. Last spring, YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories, the lawsuit claims.

A Google spokeswoman said the company will vigorously defend itself in the lawsuit. “We have a clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity,” she said in a statement. “At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products.”

People familiar with YouTube’s and Google’s hiring practices in interviews corroborated some of the lawsuit’s allegations, including the hiring freeze of white and Asian technical employees, and YouTube’s use of quotas.

Mr. Wilberg’s lawsuit, filed in January in California’s San Mateo County Superior Court, alleges that Google discriminated against him for his sex and race, retaliated by firing him when he complained, and in the process violated antidiscrimination laws. Mr. Wilberg declined to comment through his attorney.

The lawsuit highlights the tension facing the technology industry as it tries to boost minority hiring, a stated goal of many large companies, including Google. It also threatens to ignite simmering controversy about Silicon Valley’s politics and whether its predominantly liberal ideology is affecting how companies operate.

Google in particular has found itself in the middle of the gender debate following dueling lawsuits in January, one that alleged the company discriminated against women, the other claiming discrimination against conservative white men. The latter suit was filed by plaintiff James Damore, an engineer who was fired from the company last year for distributing a memo that suggested men were better suited to certain tech jobs than women. Google has said it disagrees with the allegations in those suits.

Mr. Wilberg, 40, alleges he complained to multiple managers at YouTube about its hiring practices over the past two years, and elevated those complaints to Google managers before he was ultimately fired last November.

Employers are allowed to undertake initiatives to promote diversity hiring, employment lawyers say. But under Title VII, the federal antidiscrimination law, employers aren’t allowed to make hiring decisions based on race and gender among other protected classes. That means they can’t employ practices like hiring quotas based on race or only hiring one type of minority candidate, attorneys say. Such practices would also run afoul of California laws.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517090)

the fact that she doesn't see ANY internal contradictions in those two statements proves she is stone cold retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517102)

All the children of the world

Red (not) yellow, black (not) white

They are precious in zher sight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517124)

"I needed to transition to get hired," zhe mewled, coyly flicking zher pissclit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517929)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517715)

It's actually worse if employers go through the motions, because they're wasting the time and possibly money of candidates who have no shot at the job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517521)

Does the complaint satisfy Twiqbal, then, assuming CA state courts abide by the standard?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35524785)

Google = giant that can't be slowed down by a few disgruntled libertarian leaning engineers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35517998)

The emails are screenshotted at the end and

“We should only consider L3s from our underrepresented groups.”

There’s another one that is quite literally a hiring quota.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35520169)

see: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/alexa-ai-leader-ashwin-ram-leaving-amazon-head-googles-cloud-ai/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35522637)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35522875)

Groups of people (the shareholders of apple/google/etc) voluntarily agreeing to abstain from trade with (hiring) other people (candidate hires) does not deprive any party of life or property. This is the basis of crime in Common Law, as I understand it.

It is definitely a violation of US Federal antitrust law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35524838)

They chose to max revenue rather than make new products. MSFT is best understood as a husk built to extract as much money from existing customers as possible. Their every move makes sense through this lens. It's also why no sane company should adopt their tech going forward.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35525838)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35525921)

I am the creator of this thread: http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2983551&mc=72&forum_id=2

and I would rather deal with kike bullshit than white racism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35526466)

this will eventually be our country fag. you are on the losing end of this trend. and now there is not a single thing you can do about it. enjoy your opioids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35526511)

There will always be some corner of the world for skilled people - Dubai, Singapore, UK etc. Nations rise and fall. Smart people move on.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35526908)

I'd also prefer Jews in North America to people like you in North America. Admittedly that isn't saying much about Jews.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3907693&forum_id=2#35526698)