1) A woman in her late 20s
2) Who used to work at Uber in Engineering working on
database and networking scalability
3) Went to a top private college
4) has a Masters in Information Systems
5) previous to Uber worked as a Data Analyst in a tech
company in the Midwest and left when it was acquired
by a Chinese firm
6) Is 5 foot 7 Caucasian with dark hairI am an Uber survivor
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Re: I am an Uber survivor
#32Yet again the nerds have become the bullies.
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#33Re: I am an Uber survivor
#34I'm glad the author is sharing her story.
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#35Re: I am an Uber survivor
#36Or alternatively publish the story with a news agency as a protected source under a pseudonym.
Uber deserves what they have coming to them at the moment, but an anonymized post that fits perfectly into the Uber / sexism / hostile work place with no evidence should be treated as suspect.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have great news for you! It's not. It's 201 7
Your parent may be referring to the events described that happened prior to 2017.
serious comment: I think it's great these stories are getting out. Now women know what they will face at Uber. And perhaps someone will have the strength to sue them for discrimination.
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#38I don't believe HN should be front paging anonymous content without some proof of having worked at Uber.
That said, given the level of detail and the consistency with other reports we've heard, I think this report sounds pretty credible.
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#39My default is "show me the evidence", but I believe Susan Fowler's account because she put her reputation on the line and I was willing to trust that she left, opposed to got fired, due to non-performance reasons based on being able to somewhat approximate/confirm her technical abilities.
This submission is just anonymous accusations. Absurd, unrealistic-sounding accusations. If the culture at Uber was as rampantly ridiculous as described in this blogpost, men and women would be falling over themselves to tell their stories.
> My paycheck is 18% less than my less qualified male colleagues.
If this was true, and the anonymous writer, who claims to be a skilled data analyst, was able to make a case that this was due to gender and not ability, she should be telling this story to a lawyer, not a blog site.
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#40Yet again the nerds have become the bullies.
> It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn’t participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved.
This was every douchebag in high school who would laugh at me for being interested in computers back in the early '00s. And now they're programmers 15 years later. Brogrammer culture squicks me out in several ways, but mostly because the same people who laughed at, mocked, and belittled anyone interested in programming are now invading our industry and driving the decent folk out.