Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective
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#2Wow! To imagine that the culture at one of the best engineering teams in the world is this poisonous is shocking.
I wonder if things would have played out differently if she had immediately addressed her supervisor's unnecessary defense. While this seems like the starting point for the harassment, my guess is that it was ingrained in the team all along and would have come out at one point or another. Not that that makes it any better.
Truly horrible experience for anyone to go through and I hope she finds a better place to work in and can perhaps put this bitter experience to help others.
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#3This kind of stuff should serve as a warning to all tech companies: the only way you can avoid PR shitstorms is by not hiring women.
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#4These things happen at most companies .. people get jealous and have different ways of dealing with it .. it's up to management to handle it well, but since no one talks about it, there is no management for it ..
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#5This kind of stuff should serve as a warning to all tech companies: the only way you can avoid PR shitstorms is by not hiring women.
How about just not hiring assholes?
If you must hire an asshole, keep them somewhere they can't do any damage to the culture.
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#6The "No Meaningful Process" is shocking in a company of Apples size - in the UK they would get the book thrown at them at a tribunal for that.
Sounds like Her boss and Hr failed I wonder if things Like brexit and Trump have made closet racists fell they can be more open
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#7This kind of stuff should serve as a warning to all tech companies: the only way you can avoid PR shitstorms is by not hiring women.
No its have proper procedures and training for all mangers FFS its not rocket science.
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#8The "No Meaningful Process" is shocking in a company of Apples size - in the UK they would get the book thrown at them at a tribunal for that. Sounds like Her boss and Hr failed I wonder if things Like brexit and Trump have made closet racists fell they can be more open
unfortunately yes ... and they don't think about consequences ...
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#9> But this resolution still seems incomplete. I was a productive employee at the company. While the company and its culture stood silently by, I have lost years of my life, career and happiness because of the racial and gender harassment I endured at work, it’s mishandling and the brutal aftermath.
Definitely listing damages here. Likely preparing for a lawsuit with this phrasing.
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#10>> I also faced hostile remarks about Indian women being subservient and arranged marriages being forced on Indians for generations.
Yes. But please, don't present it like the arranged marriages has stopped.
It is quite often that young people in the bay area (of both genders) get destroyed, when they fall in love with an Indian women (or men), only to discover that the parents reject a marriage (to a non Indian). And arrange a marriage instead.