Downvotes for suggesting the CEO get rid of execs who carry on like this at work and expect a payday? Wow this thread not only details how sordid Google is, but also the continued decline of HN...scary how many apologists showed up here.
Downvotes for suggesting the CEO get rid of execs who carry on like this at work and expect a payday? Wow this thread not only details how sordid Google is, but also the continued decline of HN...scary how many apologists showed up here.
Larry Page (Sundar's boss) has been involved in this and other coverups of executive misconduct, having made the decision to give people like Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal large severances and allow them to "move on" to other things.
Sergey Brin (also Sundar's boss) stated that the whole purpose of having female employees at Google was so he could sleep with them. While working on Google Glass, he had an affair with a member of the Glass team that was fairly publicized at the time.
Eric Schmidt (recently chairman of Alphabet's board, over Google) put his mistress on payroll once as a consultant. Supposedly, he was the "adult in the room" of this organization.
David Drummond (chief legal officer of Alphabet, also over Google) had an affair with an underling, and only admitted it in accordance with company policy after she had his kids. She lost her job because of it.
It's likely the only way to clean house at Alphabet/Google is to break it up and sell it off, ideally in a manner that doesn't make the very people responsible for these transgressions even more rich.
Unexpected series of events to spark antitrust, but whatever works.
Susan Fowler's revelations led to the public outrage wave against Uber, after all.