Uber not doing anything about it is that "discriminatory, anti-women culture" you're looking for.

That's bad, yes, but one bad manager does not a "culture" make.

I mean, it does if the culture is to turn a blind eye to managers that do this.

Of course, from what I can tell, there's far more than one problem manager involved in all this.

Fair point - thanks for making it.

I wanted to see if I can inject some perspective here overall and Her post covers both to a fair degree.

I think that it is hard for us all at times to remember that large orgs can have pretty varied cultures and that some bad experiences don't speak for the whole.

Hoping we can have a productive discussion about culture in this thread :)

It's one of the downsides of being such a large company, some bad PR story is treated as if from one entity, because in people's minds Uber is just Uber. Having been on both the inside and outside when a horrifying news story comes out, I always try to err on the side of caution. It is near impossible as an outsider to know whether the problem is systemic or not. Interestingly, I'll bet it really slows down the amount of idealistic people who'd want to apply for a company though - I keep telling friends at amazon I'd be interested to apply but the risk of being put on one of the "bad teams" seems very high, and they've generally been in agreement because they agree it would be a risk - they read the same stories.

So well put. Thank you for summing it up far better than I could have :)

I'm also not sure that companies sponsor people 100% of the time when they are a fit for a role - do you know? Honestly curious.

It's not dark out at night, it's just that the earth has blocked the sun.

Which is a fair complaint. But lots of people seem to be overreacting. I imagine any number of large employers would have much worse stories than that out there somewhere.