Uber Described as ‘Sexist,”Chaotic’ Hell Hole By Former Employee | Heat Street

Silicon Valley has become rather notorious for its “bro culture” in recent years with many companies announcing measures to attract more women.However according to Ms Fowler, when she joined Uber, women represented 25 per cent of the organization she worked in. On her last day, she says that number was down to about 3 per cent.It didn’t take long for her blog post to be widely circulated, prompting a response from her former employer. Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said the company will “conduct an urgent investigation” into the allegations, and promised to fire anyone who “behaves this way or thinks this is OK.”

This is a stunning allegation if anywhere close to true. If the percentage of women in Uber truly dropped from 25% to 3% in slightly over a year, alarm bells should have been going off everywhere. This is truly an out of control organization or Ms. Fowler isn’t seeing the entire picture.

I can’t for the life of me understand how HR could ignore her complaints. No HR person that I know on the face of the earth, well let’s narrow it down to companies that have HR departments in the US, would ever ignore such a complaint. Mr. Kalanick’s response is correct, however, he certainly must be asking himself how this happened under his watch (assuming it did).

One thing is for sure, we don’t know the whole story. We may never know the entire story, but I suspect there will be enough story to understand what happened and who dropped the ball.