SAN FRANCISCO,CA-A top Silicon Valley Indian-American engineer has stepped down from his role at Uber after it was discovered there were sexual-harassment allegations against him at his previous job at Google that he did not disclose when he was hired by Uber. The engineer, Amit Singhal, is leaving Uber after a report in tech news outlet Recode about the allegations. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick asked Singhal to resign after learning...
about the allegations. Singhal went through the standard background checks before his employment at Uber but the sexual-harassment allegations during Singhal’s time at Google never came up. Singhal oversaw Google’s search engine for years and was considered one of the company’s most powerful executives. According to the Recode report, a female employee filed a sexual-harassment complaint against Singhal while they were at Google in 2015. Google later allowed Singhal to leave his job before the company could take further action against him. Singhal is said to have denied the allegations.
In a statement, Singhal again denied them.
“Harassment is unacceptable in any setting,” the statement says. “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, who was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh said,”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 representative said Singhal is not denying that there were allegations, but denying they’re true.
Singhal’s departure comes at a time when Uber is facing intense scrutiny following allegations of sexual harassment by a former female employee against her manager. Susan Fowler and other current and former employees have claimed that the company’s human resource officials repeatedly ignored harassment claims about employees who were “top performers.”
Uber asked Eric H. Holder Jr., who served as Attorney General under President Barack Obama, to investigate those claims.
Singhal worked for 15 years at Google where he was the Internet giant’s head search honcho. He left Google in February 2016. At Uber, he was tapped to oversee mapping division as well as a unit that runs the dispatching, marketing and pricing of Uber cars. He reported directly to Kalanick and advised Anthony Levandowski, who runs the company’s self-driving automobile efforts.
Upon joining Uber, Singhal wrote on his blog that he felt like Uber was a “geek’s candy store” because it was trying to solve “one of the most challenging computer science problems I’ve encountered in my thirty-year career.”
In a statement, Singhal again denied them.
“Harassment is unacceptable in any setting,” the statement says. “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, who was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh said,”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 representative said Singhal is not denying that there were allegations, but denying they’re true.
Singhal’s departure comes at a time when Uber is facing intense scrutiny following allegations of sexual harassment by a former female employee against her manager. Susan Fowler and other current and former employees have claimed that the company’s human resource officials repeatedly ignored harassment claims about employees who were “top performers.”
Uber asked Eric H. Holder Jr., who served as Attorney General under President Barack Obama, to investigate those claims.
Singhal worked for 15 years at Google where he was the Internet giant’s head search honcho. He left Google in February 2016. At Uber, he was tapped to oversee mapping division as well as a unit that runs the dispatching, marketing and pricing of Uber cars. He reported directly to Kalanick and advised Anthony Levandowski, who runs the company’s self-driving automobile efforts.
Upon joining Uber, Singhal wrote on his blog that he felt like Uber was a “geek’s candy store” because it was trying to solve “one of the most challenging computer science problems I’ve encountered in my thirty-year career.”
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