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For a long time, Google has been deemed to one of the best employers in the
worldwide. According Forbes (2017), Alphabet came to the top spot in the Global
2000: World’s Best Employers, which is a parent company launched by Google.
Most people will not refuse to this kind of company, not only for a rather
satisfactory salary, but also because of the luxe perks. As a job seeker, I am not an
exception.
I would like to tailor myself for approaching to meet the requirements of good
employers. As Google has stated officially, they prefer to hire “smart creatives”.
That’s a group of people who are outgoing, newness-pursuing, good at the logical
and critical thinking, like adventure, and having excellent professional skills.
(Robbins & Judge, 2015). Imagine this, after I work so hard on training and
educating myself, and eventually become a “smart creative”. While I never know
before, there is existing a hiding requirement, the male’s employee superiority.
Facing too much happens of gender discrimination in the workplace, we might
still believe that there should be different in Google, after all, it is the best
employer of the world. Since from the TV and newspapers, it is common that
men’s faces appear more often than women’s in public views in the IT industry. I
think I already know that there is not a balance on numbers between male and
female workers. Nevertheless, 70 percent male overall, such a large percentage
still make me shocked. What’s more, 3 of 36 senior managers are females. With
no doubt, it is a male-dominated company, how could we expect the gender
equality in this environment. Now, I could not help thinking that in the selection
criteria for the best employers must not include no sexism. For innumerable
female workers in the society, it is unfair to be considered as a secondary class by
the so-called best employers.
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I do have reasons to believe the men-dominated executives of Google will hire

more male workers. Firstly, even to this day, lots of people claim that women are
not competent to the engineering jobs, at least not as perfect as men. A former
male software engineer of Google thinks that the training on an unconscious bias
is useless in increasing numbers of female employees. He insists the main reason
of few female workers in IT industry is human nature. Instead of gender
discrimination, the biological differences are root causes. Eventually, Google
shows its attitude to the public by firing this software engineer. (Wakabayashi,
2017). However, we can tell from that, it is absolutely that not only one male
employee holds this type of opinion. There are more people who don’t speak out
their ideas. Besides it is impossible and inappropriate for Google to fire them all.
Google has a long way to go in dealing with criticism of lack of diversities, since
most people have not realized it exists. Therefore, they would keep hiring men
work for Google in their perfect and no flawless way. Secondly, people are more
likely to choose to stay in the safety zone. There are moments when they
encounter things which are distinct from themselves, people feel uncomfortable.
Men at Google will try to ignore women when they have right to decide who will
be hired. Avoiding risk, being with people who are like ourselves, these
unconscious feelings will lead them hiring more men than women. (Josefowitz,
2017).
Certainly, as a female, if I were a current employee in Google, I will put forward
my views of diversity issues. First of all, I will do is observing. Observing what is
happening about gender discrimination, and doing researches to analyze the main
reason what results the bias, then I will hand in a report to the HR department.
The first step is to let our co-workers know, make them realize the sexism around
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us is not made up, on the contrary is a true story. The company should
understand the unconscious bias is harm for female works to stay motivated,
which could result in the discordant work atmosphere. Secondly, I will keep check
my own behavior. Negotiating with other female colleagues, then we try together
by using our behaviors to make others change their bias. While that way is
doomed to have a minimal effect, deep prejudices are inherent and hard to
change. Last, I will suggest company to establish some internal regulations to
express its inclusive. Once a corporate culture has been built, people in this big
environment will be impacted and make some change gradually.