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Blind had taken a survey here for all a month or so ago asking if we have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment at our own companies. Then they ranked the companies which had the most responses to the survey. The results are interesting. On an average they found 31% yes responses!!! Some of the companies have really high numbers. Obviously this is far from a scientific survey, and would have large sample bias, but this does indicate the industry needs to step up! Uber has taken lot of steps since last year of strengthening HR processes, training, cultural improvements, diversity and inclusion improvements. I hope other companies are doing it too even though they didn’t suffer through the media crisis we did in 2017. http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/03/07/top-10-tech-survey-have-you-ever-experienced-or-witnessed-sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace/
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I’m not sure why the result can be trusted.
What a useless poll! It didn’t ask if the situation happened in your current workplace or previous, but it concluded it was in your company!!!!!! I for one answered yes for my previous company...
It's bs. People unhappy with stupid poll would troll the poll. Never trust a poll where participants don't have any reason to answer correctly.
The problem is that there's a legal definition of harassment and a personal one, and sometimes these don't overlap very well, even though both are valid in different circumstances. The danger is when anyone wants to make their subjective opinion the company standard, either on the side of tolerating unacceptable behavior (boys will be boys) or on the side of allowing people to settle petty scores with baseless claims (believe all women) I'm not a big fan of the panopticon, but if universal surveillance is what it takes to stop bad actors (both harassers and fabricators), it's not the worst tradeoff, I don't pick my nose at my desk that often.
Universal surveillance will act an noicy alarm system. And those checking it would be effectively deciding who is guilty by prosecuting whoever they don't like and turning blind eye on others.
I think all the people that saw sexual harassment fled to salesforce. That’s what I hear a lot at work. A lot of women faced harassment at other companies and then came to salesforce. Teamblind is drawing dumbass conclusions when they didn’t ask if it’s your present company.
What a useless poll. Of the top of my head, one obvious and unmentioned factor: men are much less likely to be or witness sexual harassment; therefore more male-dominated companies will have fewer yes votes in this poll, all else equal. Further, everyone trolls on here. Uber employees are probably much more likely to be worried about their company being perceived as toxic given all the news (you posting this is evidence).
I also thought women ratios must influence this survey. But they dont. Here are the women percentages in the companies in the same ranking of the survey results: Salesforce: 31% Airbnb: 41% Microsoft: 26% Snapchat: <no diversity report> Amazon: 39% Google: 31% Lyft: 42% LinkedIn: 42% Facebook: 35% Uber: 38% For example, Microsoft, Salesforce and Google have the lowest ratio of women employees in the list, and thus more men should have voted for the survey and thus they should have been at the bottom of the results showing least sexual harassment. Quite the contrary -- Salesforce and Microsoft have among the highest sexual harassment, and Google is in the middle somewhere. And Google has just 31% women employees compared to 38% at Uber; but their sexual harassment percentages are more than 2.5X those of Uber. Trolling is common across all companies so that shouldn't be a factor. Nobody will lie on this poll from any company either. The differences in numbers are huge, and soft factors like the ones you mentioned, even if true, may not be able to explain the gap.
Blind is not only for engineers. We have a lot of non-engineers too in our forum, and a lot of females too. I don’t see reason to anticipate massive differences in women representation in Blind between Uber and other companies..