by
Ellen Pao
Kleiner’s managing partners flouted hiring rules, too, asking inappropriate questions in interviews throughout my time at Kleiner, like, “Are you married? Do you have kids? How old are you? Are you thinking about having kids? What does your husband do? What did your ex-husband do?”
It was noted at some point that asking all these questions created a giant legal risk, and the response was, effectively, Well, who’s going to sue us?