I work at Uber. This behavior is totally inappropriate and I'm really sorry to hear your friend had this experience. My Twitter DMs are open (@codebutler) if you would like to share any more detail.

I appreciate that and I'll ping my friend to see if she wants to reach out.

Which behavior is inappropriate?

Perhaps Uber employees are willing to buy out investors holding grossly overvalued Uber stock if they believe in Travis more than Uber's board does.

It's easy to hold an opinion when it's other people's money.

I think this is a great idea actually. They wouldn't be able to put together very much in the grand scheme of things (even 100 M raised from employees wouldn't even give them a point on the cap table) but it would be a strong signal at least.

> It's easy to hold an opinion when it's other people's money.

Is this is the only metric to warrant having an opinion?! Every stakeholder has a right to speak their mind. For the employees, they may not have the money to buy into the business but they do so via sweat equity (effort + time + risk).

Your attempt to trivialize their involvement amounts to nonsense for these reasons.

Worth noting: for better or for worse, companies are autocratic dictatorships or at best, oligarchies: opinions of employees do not matter much, unless such opinions somehow affect revenue.

And they were clueless enough to say this to a female interviewee? Yikes! I hope she finds another opportunity :-(

Clueless implies they didn't know what they were doing, or what the outcome of doing that would be.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

This aphorism is called Hanlon's razor for the curious. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Well, what matters is the ratio of opinions. Is there anything to indicate that a majority of employees back him? Those that wanted him gone had no reason to speak up.