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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷3/08/2017 12:47:07 am PST

People leaving Uber from the tyre-fire of sexual harassment claims against the company are finding it hard to find other employment.

theguardian.com

At job interviews, the employee said, recruiters seem wary of Uber’s “hustle-oriented” workplace. “They have to defend themselves and say: ‘Oh, I’m not an asshole.’”

The “asshole” reputation stems from Uber’s corporate values, former employees and others in the tech industry said. For many, company “values” are the kind of corporate speak that rarely interferes with one’s day-to-day work environment. But at Uber, the emphasis on hustling, toe-stepping and meritocracy took on a more sinister aspect in the workplace.

“Everyone used those values to excuse their bad behavior,” said the former Uber employee.

The employee described the workplace as a “Hobbesian jungle” where “you can never get ahead unless someone else dies”.