SAN FRANCISCO — A little more than a week after Uber faced stinging accusations<br />that it had ignored female employees’ complaints of sexual harassment, the company dismissed the head of its engineering efforts for failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim from his previous job.<br />The search giant deemed an employee’s claim of sexual harassment against Mr. Singhal “credible” in an internal investigation, according<br />to two people familiar with the matter who declined to be identified because they were not allowed to speak on the matter.<br />In fact, the company held a goodbye party for Mr. Singhal, according to two people who<br />attended the party, one a current Google employee and another a former employee.<br />Last week, the Uber investors Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein wrote in an open letter to the company<br />that they were frustrated with how Uber had handled its culture issues and that they had “hit a dead end in trying to influence the company quietly from the inside.”<br />The issue involving Mr. Singhal dates to 2015, when he was still at Google.<br />The former Uber engineer Susan Fowler and other current and former employees have claimed<br />that the company’s human resources officials repeatedly ignored harassment claims about employees who were “top performers.”<br />Uber asked Eric H. Holder Jr., who served as attorney general under President Obama, to investigate those claims.<br />The swift dismissal of Mr. Singhal, a high-profile hire who signaled Uber’s ability to attract the technology industry’s most sought-after executives, comes at a particularly inopportune time for Uber, which is struggling with complaints<br />that a rough-and-tumble culture has allowed sexual harassment to go unpunished.<br />In his goodbye note to the company, there was no mention of a sexual harassment claim against him, or any other signs of problems.
