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It seems to match her original blog post. "It turned out that keeping me on the team made my manager look good, and I overheard him boasting to the rest of the
by emiliobumachar 10y ago
It seems to match her original blog post.
"It turned out that keeping me on the team made my manager look good, and I overheard him boasting to the rest of the team that even though the rest of the teams were losing their women engineers left and right, he still had some on his team."
(from https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...)
That's not the worst thing she reported, but it's there, and it's definitely very bad. Would you elaborate on what mischaracterization you see?
- dllthomas 10y agoA characterization that the origin of the problem was Uber paying too much attention to diversity statistics.
- Oxitendwe 10y agoI think it's very reasonable to say that the reason it made her bosses look good to have a woman on their team was directly because of the push for diversity and inclusion in the tech world. Why else would they value such a thing?