In Silicon Valley, being labeled “difficult” can stall a career. A longtime Broadcom engineer now claims it ended hers.
After 26 years at Broadcom, senior engineer Gouri Rayabhari, 58, of Cupertino, says she was pushed out of the company after being labeled difficult and has filed a discrimination lawsuit in Santa Clara County. In her complaint, she says she helped build a Wi-Fi division that produced more than 30 products, yet was repeatedly stereotyped and sidelined by male supervisors. The filing says that treatment came to a head with her Jan. 29 termination and a division-wide message that she alleges damaged her reputation…