A review by itsgg
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler

2.0

I really wanted this to be better. After reading the excellent “Know My Name” and “Catch and Kill,” this story of sexism and injustice fell short, by comparison, for me. The facts of Fowler’s story are compelling, so it’s disappointing that she didn’t have a better editor or ghostwriter to help her tell it. And honestly, if you’ve read all the media accounts of her story over the past few years (plus her original blog post), you don’t need to read this book. It doesn’t add much that’s interesting or significant, and her self-righteous tone is surprisingly irritating, given how much she is clearly in the right!

If you do read it, you can skip the first 3 chapters, which is a lot of tangential memoir material about her background. Chapter 4 describes a grad school experience that becomes relevant later. Chapter 5 is when the real story of her experiences working in Silicon Valley starts.