In the post, Fowler, a site-reliability engineer, detailed a horrifying year in which her sexual harassment claims were ignored by Uber's human resources department.
It was reported on Tuesday that the company fired 20 employees and was improving management training after an investigation by a law firm into sexual harassment claims and other allegations at the company.
One of the firms, Perkins Coie LLP, is still in the process of reviewing 215 cases, 100 of which have led to no action being taken with 57 still open.
A separate investigation is also going underway at the same time of this disaster by a former United States attorney general, Eric Holder. The results of that probe will be released to Uber's board on Tuesday, according to reports. The person who confirmed the news for The Washington Post was familiar with Uber's action and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter not yet announced publicly by the company.
The company also hired Bozoma Saint John, who is a popular face at Apple's product launches, as its Chief Brand Officer.
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CEO Travis Kalanick asked for his senior vice president of engineering, Amit Singhal, to resign in February after the company learned of sexual harassment allegations against him while he was at Google. Fowler said she later discovered others had spoken up internally about similar treatment and Uber did little more than issue a warning.
Bobbie Wilson, a partner at the global law firm, said the firings included both managers and lower-level workers, some of whom retaliated against employees after they complained about bad conduct. The source told Bloomberg that the company told employees more than 20 people had been fired.
Wilson said Uber gave her law firm "unfettered access" to people and documents that were needed for the Fowler investigation. She also wrote about what other female employees told her during her time working at Uber. It is not certain whether they will be made public.
Human resources chief Liane Hornsey also led a series of "listening sessions" in which complaints could be heard regarding the bad behavior Uber's workplace has become tainted with. Recommendations from it are expected to come at a planned Uber staff meeting next week, a spokesperson for the report told NBC News.
Uber is also facing a lawsuit from Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) self-driving vehicle division, Waymo, alleging trade secret theft.
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