Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer for Uber and current engineer at Stripe, accused the company of rampant sexual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post published today.
Fowler claims that on her first day out of training, she was solicited for sex by a superior on an internal company chat thread. She then immediately captured screenshots of the messages and sent them to Uber's human resources department. In a healthy organization, such a problem would have been quickly resolved. But Fowler alleges that the harassment only continued, preventing her from moving up within the company.
"Upper management told me that he 'was a high performer' and they wouldn't feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part," explained Fowler in her post
At this point, Fowler says in her post that she was given a choice of remaining on the team and accepting, "a poor performance review," or moving to a different team.
[...] Though she didn't want to leave the role she felt she was best prepared to fill, she switched teams. Work continued, and while Fowler had settled into the new role she regularly had conversations with female employees who shared similar stories about HR negligence, even citing unacceptable experiences with the same superior that solicited her.
[...] Amid chaotic internal politics, Fowler attempted to transfer to a different department, but the company blocked her request. Citing strong performance, she couldn't understand why her request had been denied.
"I was told that 'performance problems aren't always something that has to do with work, but sometimes can be about things outside of work or your personal life,'" added Fowler in her post.
She ultimately decided to stay in the same role until her next performance review. But the frustration continued with a second reassignment rejection and a further explanation that her "review had been changed after the fact," and that she didn't show "signs of an upward career trajectory." As a result, she was shut out of a Stanford computer science graduate program sponsored by the company for high-achievers.
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(Score: 2) by subs on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:07PM
you haven't been working around 30-and-under Millennial brogrammers for your whole profession
I have. Never seen what you describe. In my experience, the concentration of nasty men in the programming field is among the lowest there are, simply because programmers tend to be outsiders & introverts. Now if you want to see guys who treat women like shit and manipulate them not to notice it, you'll want the sales dept.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:15PM
In my experience, the concentration of nasty men in the programming field is among the lowest there are, simply because programmers tend to be outsiders & introverts
You must not work in Silicon Valley. What you're describing is the stereotypical view of programmers from 30+ years ago. That's not how they are any more; just talk to guys who work at Facebook for instance. They're not "outsiders and introverts". Moreover, look at the preferred work environments of today's young programmers: they *love* noisy, open-plan offices. No true "outsider and introvert" would want to work in that environment, but that's how programmers these days love to work. They also love agile programming, where they have daily "stand up" meetings and work in programming pairs or other very close-quarter situations.
Face it: programming is for extroverts today.
(Score: 2) by subs on Thursday February 23 2017, @09:11PM
Not sure if troll or really clueless, so feel free to correct me.
You must not work in Silicon Valley
Imagine this: there are programmers outside of Silicon Valley. Shocking, I know.
they *love* noisy, open-plan offices
You a troll? All coders I've ever met *love* WFH. This open-plan office crap was imagined by MBAs who think it encourages "communication" or some such nonsense.
They also love agile programming, where they have daily "stand up" meetings and work in programming pairs or other very close-quarter situations.
Agile, daily stand up meetings and pair programming is PHB horseshit. I've never met a programmer who liked or often even hated it.
Face it: programming is for extroverts today.
Lol, nope. What are you gonna tell me next? That we programmers like quarterly performance reviews? Or that being interrupted every 30 minutes by some fuckface makes us feel all warm and fuzzy?