Steve Hwang, Snap‘s senior VP of Partnerships & Strategy, is leaving the social media company following a string of recent worker complaints to HR about him, The Verge’s Alex Heath reports, citing several people familiar with the situation. The complaints about Hwang, who worked at Snap for over a decade, were filed since he took over the company’s partnerships and content organization in February of this year, the author says. For example, one of the complaints alleging he told members of his team that he used to eat a street food card called “Bin Laden’s” in New York City many years ago, while another complaint was about a female employee and an interaction about her rape whistle, the author notes.
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