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Female engineers have been posting on social media their rejections of Uber's unsolicited recruitment attempts, creating ...

'Sexist, evil company': Uber struggles to hire women

Software engineer Elizabeth Ford got what many young engineers in Silicon Valley once considered the dream job pitch: Would she be interested in working at Uber? Ford told the recruiter the company was immoral and asked not to be contacted again.

Tinder is for dating. Facebook is for friends. LinkedIn is for ... well, it depends whom you ask.

Banker used LinkedIn to send nude pics to jobseeker

Tinder is for dating. Facebook is for friends. LinkedIn is for ... well, it depends whom you ask, as a legal case involving a banker sending a picture of his genitals shows. LinkedIn is an extension of the workplace, similar to going into the office or attending a corporate networking event, the theory of the case goes. If you wouldn't flirt on a conference call, don't do it on LinkedIn. If you do, you and your company could pay the price.

There's an Uber app on your phone. Think twice about tapping it, because if Uber remains terrible after this, we have ...

One way to fix Uber: Think twice before using it

There's a lot at stake. Ride-hailing, as an industry and a civic utility, is too big an idea to be left to a company like the one Uber is now. The company that wins this industry is bound to become one of the world's most powerful corporations.

Future nerd or future rock star?

The lives of Brian

Why do we continue to portray scientists and engineers as badly dressed nerds with a good line in dad jokes?