A good thought. There is a real pressure to perform at the highest level. There's a naive view that lets you either ignore this kind of sexist behavior because

A good thought. There is a real pressure to perform at the highest level. There's a naive view that lets you either ignore this kind of sexist behavior because the perpetrators are productive, or condemn it, possibly tanking the company in the process. However, Uber is not a small company, and there is lumpiness in their performance. In Susan Fowler's article, there's a real concern to turning over a large chunk of their employees, and the fact that they're women shows that this is a problem of sexism. That sort of moderate-scale bigotry is harmful to a company, and it's not something that you can necessarily read the whole culture from. Growth papers over a lot of things, but that doesn't mean the things that are happening are good and that they're condemned by all. Moving forward is important, but there's real short-term incentives for the managers of bigots and harassers to clean up their houses. It's reasonable that they made mistakes hiring too fast, but there's no real reason to tolerate that kind of behavior for any amount of time.