A former engineer at Uber wrote that she was sexually harassed and that her complaints were ignored by the human resources department, despite other harassment reports against the same manager. Furthermore, she says she was threatened with firing for reporting sexist emails and other issues. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has responded, calling what she describes as “abhorrent” and saying “anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.”
Fowler signed up with Uber in 2015 as a site reliability engineer. She claims that shortly after starting, a manager messaged her saying he was in an open relationship and looking for sexual liaisons. “It was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR,” she said.
