content: " If you don't publicly advertise blatantly un-PC views under your real name, I have a hard time seeing how they would discover you" Read Damore's lawsuit. Managers within Google were openly pointing out employees to blacklist. They network. They know people at other companies, go to the same parties, share info. Social networks are powerful in that respect. They don't need a formal document to flag you as a problem. Silicon Valley is a big place, but when you break it down according to specialty (e.g., patent law, hardware engineering, security), it becomes smaller.