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Uber鈥檚 top engineer, Amit Singhal, has resigned after admitting that he failed to disclose an allegation of sexual harassment that emerged during his previous employment at Google.聽

Mr. Singhal was asked to resign on Monday morning by Uber's chief executive officer, Travis Kalanick, . He denies the allegation 鈥� deemed 鈥渃redible鈥� by an internal investigation at Google 鈥� as well as the notion that he left the company because of it.聽

鈥淗arassment is unacceptable in any setting. I certainly want everyone to know that I do not condone and have not committed such behavior,鈥� he wrote the Associated Press in an emailed statement. 鈥淚n my 20-year career, I鈥檝e never been accused of anything like this before and the decision to leave Google was my own.鈥澛�

The announcement comes during a low point for Uber, which is about to undertake perhaps its most serious campaign to shed a reputation for聽misogyny following a blog post by former engineer Susan Fowler that described ingrained sexism throughout the company.聽聽

As 海角大神 reported last week, the company has responded to Ms. Fowler鈥檚 allegations by hiring former attorney general Eric Holder to head an investigative panel on sexism in its workplace, as well as promising to follow its public-company tech peers in producing reports with data on in-house gender diversity.

But Uber has done plenty to earn its current reputation, as the Monitor's Schuyler Velasco noted back in 2015, with its early failures to protect female passengers and drivers standing alongside charges of sexism in its corporate ranks聽鈥撀燼nd even less subtle displays of insensitivity:聽

Last year, Mr. Kalanick drew fire for calling his company 鈥淏oob-er鈥� in a GQ profile, referencing what a boon Uber鈥檚 success has been for his sex life. In October, the company apologized for a 鈥渉ot chick鈥� promotion from one of its offices in France that paired passengers with attractive female drivers, complete with the tagline, 鈥淲ho said women don鈥檛 know how to drive?鈥�

Incidents like those, combined with聽聽even after an announced聽聽of its policies, have helped paint Uber as a company that either doesn鈥檛 get it or doesn鈥檛 really care.聽聽

Singhal鈥檚 departure from Google聽came after 15 years atop the search division聽鈥� a key one for the company's finances.聽At the time, he said he planned to focus on philanthropy. 聽

鈥淎s I entered the fifteenth year of working at Google, I've been asking myself the question, 鈥榃hat would you want to do for the next 15?鈥� The answer has overwhelmingly been: Give back to others,鈥� he wrote in a goodbye letter then, according to Recode.聽聽

But in January, just over a year after leaving Google, he announced that he would join Uber to work on the self-driving car program with Kalanick.聽

An Uber spokeswoman told the AP that Kalanick requested Singhal鈥檚 resignation after Recode informed the company of the previous allegation. She added that Singhal鈥檚 failure to disclose the allegation was the issue, not Uber鈥檚 hiring process.聽

Recode reports, citing anonymous sources, that the Google employee who filed the complaint against Singhal worked closely with him on the search team, but did not want to go public with the charges.

This report includes material from the Associated Press and Reuters.