A company executive—who failed to inform Uber that he was the subject of a sexual harassment investigation during his tenure at Google—resigned.
Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, announced last week that an investigation would be launched regarding a former employee’s claims of sexism and sexual harassment in the workplace. On Monday, Kalanick asked the company’s senior vice president of engineering, Amit Singhal, to tender his resignation. Singhal complied.
This came after a Recode reporter informed Uber about Singhal’s time at Google, where a fellow employee accused him of sexual harassment. An internal investigation reportedly found those claims to be “credible.” Singhal at the time denied those allegations.
Singhal told Recode in an email:
Harassment is unacceptable in any setting. I certainly want everyone to know that I do not condone and have not committed such behavior. In my 20-year career, I’ve never been accused of anything like this before and the decision to leave Google was my own.
Singhal’s exit also comes at an awkward time when Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is suing Uber over claims of intellectual thievery in the self-driving car space.
Singhal's departure comes after a rough several days for Uber. The company is undergoing an internal investigation with former attorney general Eric Holder over allegations of sexual harassment within the company following a bombshell blog post by former engineer Susan Fowler. A New York Times article highlighted even more seedy parts of Uber's culture, alleging drug use and groping. And to top it all off, Waymo, Google's new name for its self-driving car company, is suing Uber, alleging one of its employees stole key self-driving technology.
Google and Uber have not commented publicly on the situation.
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