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Claire Stapleton Helped Write The Myth Of Google, But Now She’s Trying To Tell The Truth

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It feels a little perverse to be writing this review in a Google doc. In 2018, over 20,000 Google employees walked out to protest working conditions at the tech juggernaut. Claire Stapleton was one of the protest's primary organizers. She had started at the company as an internal communications associate, drafting copy to explain the work product of the company to actual employees. Her quippy emails earned her multiple promotions and even the internal moniker “Bard of Google.” After a few years, however, Stapleton, along with many other employees, were fed up with the sexism, racism, and intense hierarchy of the company. Andy Rubin, who was accused of extensive sexual harassment, had received a $90 million exit package from CEO Larry Page. Many Black employees were underpaid and many women were exhausted by the boy’s club environment. New York magazine wrote an extended oral history of the highly publicized event. Almost a decade later, Stapleton has published an account of her turbule

First report: Book Review: ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ by Claire Stapleton — nytimes.com, 7d