Uber’s company culture in doubt as former employee alleges s*x harassment

A former employee of Uber Susan Fowler has accused the company of rampant s*xual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post.

The accusations by the former site reliability engineer for Uber and current engineer at Stripe, is the latest in a series of events that point to serious questions about Uber’s company culture.

Fowler claims that on her first day out of training, she was solicited for s*x 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.

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“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.

“I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that,” further explained Fowler.

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