James Damore, the former Google engineer fired over a memo criticizing the company’s diversity efforts, says his former employer is discriminating in its hiring practices based on race or gender.

Damore, who’s online post has divided Google and ignited a national firestorm, told CNBC that Google is “treating people differently based on race or gender.”

He also said he is “pursuing legal remedies” against the company over his firing.

The company “is pressing individual managers to increase diversity” and is “using race or gender” to decide which workers are promoted and which teams job candidates were placed on, Damore said.

Damore was fired last week after 3 1/2 years as an engineer over a post he wrote arguing that among the reasons there are so few women in technology were gender-based characteristics.

Google said the memo promoted harmful gender stereotypes and violated its code of conduct.

In his 10-page memo, written a month ago, Damore called Alphabet unit Google an “echo chamber.”

Yet by the end of last week, in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, he said the company was “almost like a cult.”

Still, his criticism of his former employer was somewhat muted. “I support Google…I don’t support anyone who wants to hurt Google,” Damore told CNBC, adding that he doesn’t support anyone calling for marches on the company.