Is anyone else cynically suspecting a coordinated hit? I don't doubt there's a toxic culture with real problems present. But the timing and sustained pressure of all this media attention seems a little... suspicious.
I also think back to the anonymously written Medium piece after the first one [1]. There is literally no way to verify this, and it was upvoted a ridiculous amount (top 10 story on HN of all time or something like that). To a cynic, this could easily be astroturfing.
To reiterate - I'm not by any means doubting that there are serious organizational and cultural problems at Uber that need to be addressed. But I can't help but feeling like something else is going on as well.
Who could stand to benefit from such a public image barrage, by attacking the ability to hire and retain talent?
[1] - https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...