Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy
Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @folletto , @protocol , @joyehoward , @runasand , @tri...
Source: Sriram Krishnan, known for holding product leadership roles at Facebook, Twitter, and Snap, has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner
Alex Heath / The Information : Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @jessicalessin , @alexeheath , @sriramkri , @moorehn , @mdudas , @cindygallop , @anmolm_ , @almostmedia , @yoda , @zebulgar , @canadakaz , @alex...
Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints
whose CEO said “keep politics out of the workplace”—has a hostile and racist workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/... Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh / @wyntermitchell : Y'all gon learn the hard way to not tr...
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
’ says Google, Comcast, and Huawei got in touch Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Amazon exec quits after company fires employee activists Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : Amazon VP resigns after firi...
Leaked docs: TikTok told moderators to suppress posts from those deemed “ugly”, poor, or disabled, and censor political speech in livestreams, to attract users
The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world … Tweets: @theintercept , @intothecrevasse , @cindygallop , @sarahemclaugh , @rose_catb , and @s...
Microsoft is investigating sexual harassment and discrimination claims that some workers say HR overlooked after women shared stories in a long email chain
Quartz http://qz.com/... Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i : “More common complaints in the online discussion centered on feeling stymied in promotion, trying to balance assertiveness with pressure to appe...
While Amazon's board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon's upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American
Maya Kosoff / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , @cindygallop , @cindygallop , @jeremykonyndyk , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : .@mekosoff drops the hammer on Amazon's mostly whi...
How Slack has made its US workforce more diverse than other Silicon Valley companies by forgoing a diversity chief and focusing on hiring efforts from the start
Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced custom fox emoji … Facebook: Cindy Gallop . Tweets: @cultureshiftlab , @medi...
Investigation finds ~70 “creepshot” Tumblr blogs including one with ~11K followers and 53K+ interactions; Tumblr hasn't removed any blogs found in investigation
After Reddit famously banned the creepshots sub-reddit, which shared non-consensual, revealing photos of women … Tweets: @cindygallop , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephf...
How Uber's hard-charging corporate culture left employees drained, according to interviews with over two dozen sources
After a highly publicized corporate meltdown this spring, Uber is working to repair a culture employees and observers say is aggressive, cutthroat, and demanding. Tweets: @elcush , @cindygallop , @_am...