He may have not told his direct teammates they lowered the bar but he certainly implied that women and underrepresented groups have at a whole at Google:

> The Harm of Google’s biases:

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> - A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates

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> - Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate.

Do you really not see the concerns this engineer has introduced for Google over his ability to objectively judge his peers who are women or members of an underrepresented group or at least how such coworkers might now have these concerns if they find themselves working with him? Do you not see how the long-term detriment and risk to Google could be (substantially) greater than the value the engineer brings to the company? Even if you remove the high-mindedness and virtues that tech companies like to project in their PR, do you not see how this is the only rational business choice for a Fortune 50 company?