Patrick Shyu
Patrick Shyu, commonly known by his online alias TechLead,[1] is a social media personality, entrepreneur, and former Google and Facebook employee. He is known for his posts about the software industry and about his philosophy about life and success. According to SheThePeople he is known for a dry sarcastic sense of humor.[1]
Career
Shyu worked at Google's San Bruno, California office for almost four years. He then joined Facebook in May 2018. Shyu was fired by Facebook on August 26, 2019, for reasons he attributes to his YouTube channel. He posted many videos in the immediate aftermath of his firing.[2] He criticized Facebook's working culture at the time, comparing it to a popularity contest, and disliking the attention that employees give to Workplace, the company's internal social network.[3]
Criticism
In May 2022, Twitter users criticized TechLead for a series of tweets he posted, and later deleted, about women in tech. He said that when he worked at Google, he "rejected all women on-the-spot and trashed their resumes in front of them", told them "I'm smarter than you" and then "gave them an NP-hard problem and went home". He later told critics of these tweets to "get into Google first", before deleting all his previous tweets and posting (and later deleting) a tweet that read, in part, "opinions are not engraved in stone".[4][5]
References
- ^ a b "TechLead Patrick Shyu Called Out For Sexist Comments: Male Privilege Entails And How- Report". SheThePeople. May 24, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
- ^ Rodriguez, Salvador (19 September 2019). "Ex-Facebook engineer posts YouTube videos mocking the culture and joking about how he was fired". CNBC. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ "Working at Facebook is like a popularity contest, says ex-employee". The Times of India. September 22, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
- ^ Teh, Cheryl (May 26, 2022). "A former Google tech lead bragged on Twitter about how he used to trash women's résumés in front of them: 'Go have some kids'". Business Insider. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ^ Begani, Meghana (24 May 2022). "Youtuber Called Out For Sexist Tweets About Female Programmers". TheQuint. Retrieved 24 May 2022.