Update on Julie Horvath's Departure
> We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer.<p>Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.<p>This is great news, but putting these people on leave seems to be too nice. It's clear that these two people obey ethics that are in direct oppposition to the healthy growth of the company. Surely they don't want them back?<p>> The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.<p>Why did it take a Techcrunch article to reach this decision? Didn't <i>anyone</i> at Github see anything wrong with that founder's wife doing what she did, according to Julie's statement?<p>> GitHub has grown incredibly fast over the past two years, bringing a new set of challenges. Nearly a year ago we began a search for an experienced HR Lead and that person came on board in January 2014<p>Doesn't appear so. They did get an HR person, but an experienced one? Not a chance. No experienced HR person would have let any of that get as far as it got. That HR person should probably be put on leave or be fired as well.<p>> Chris Wanstrath
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> CEO & Co-Founder<p>This narrows down the choices: the "founder" who is the cause for all this drama is either PJ Hyett or Tom Preston-Werner.