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This guy had to do SO MUCH bad shit before he was finally called out and I think it speaks to a major problem with Silicon Valley. I've been working with start
by ryguytilidie 9y ago
This guy had to do SO MUCH bad shit before he was finally called out and I think it speaks to a major problem with Silicon Valley.
I've been working with startups since 2011 and in that time I've seen:
-A Head of HR who gave promotions to his employees based on sexual favors given. This person happened to be friends with the CEO and employees got in trouble for reporting him.
-A founder and dealing with the above situation and doing an "investigation" that ended with nothing.
-The same founder referring the employees who were fired to their friends dumpster fire of a company so they could get a referral bonus.
-A founder I worked with belittled women, all of their female developers left after a few months. I wrote a glassdoor review and was repeatedly threatened by said founder.
-Worked with a founder who has repeatedly been accused of sexual harassment to the point where there are multiple articles about it. Same founder hooked up with multiple younger female employees while on coke in another country on a company trip. During a round of layoffs, the women saved were the women sleeping with executives (there were 4!!!). Still CEO obv.
-Finally, at larger companies with multiple younger founders I've seen wayyyy too many situations where male boss puts female employee in awkward situations, whether its an arm around them in the hot tub or extreme extra attention over male employees.
Each time I thought about pointing out this behavior, there was some sort of threat/warning about shutting up and letting it happen, often followed by actual legal threats. Watch who you work with...
- awkwarddaturtle 9y agoPeople don't know what an absolute greedy cesspool silicon valley is. It's money. It's human nature.