> This also assumes their stated goal, a more gender diverse workforce, is actually their goal. Well.. if I genuinely want to help you, and you misstate your g

> This also assumes their stated goal, a more gender diverse workforce, is actually their goal. Well.. if I genuinely want to help you, and you misstate your goals, for whatever reasons, you are only hurting yourself. Here Google probably lost a decent engineer. This sometimes happens in authoritarian organizations, where people who genuinely want to follow the orders from the top will misunderstand the indirect meaning, causing more harm for the organization (and sometimes it can be exploited). Actually, I believe that's why authoritarian organizations are less effective than democratic ones.