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"Things can get "really bad, really quickly" when a 24-year-old runs a company". "Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener review – bullies, greed and sexism in Silicon Valley". "Anna Wiener Dissects the Brain Rot of Big Tech in Her Searing New Memoir". ^ Westenfeld, Adrienne (14 January 2020)." "There's a deep sadness to it": A new book takes on masculinity in Silicon Valley". "Why Normal People Want to Work in Silicon Valley". Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. "A Complete Guide to the Handful of Proper Nouns Anna Wiener Uses in Uncanny Valley". "Living An Everyday Life Amid The Disrupters In 'Uncanny Valley' ". ^ "Aural Wes on Fader: Wesleyan's Breakout Bands".She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Since leaving tech, Wiener has been writing about Silicon Valley for The New Republic, n+1, Atlantic, and others.

After several years in San Francisco, she left the tech industry for several reasons, including its lack of response to the classified information released by Edward Snowden and a wider disillusionment with the corporate culture and sexism present therein. Her book, Uncanny Valley, never mentions the names of the companies she worked at or interacted with, though she often describes their products and corporate cultures in sufficient detail for the reader to deduce what they are. Interested in data, particularly the way in which it could be used to tell stories, she worked for an analytics startup and GitHub, and befriended Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. She worked in the tech sector in San Francisco in an attempt to find a career path with more "momentum" than the book publishing industry, where she was previously employed. Wiener grew up in Brooklyn and attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Wiener currently writes for The New Yorker as a tech correspondent. Anna Wiener is an American writer, best known for her 2020 memoir Uncanny Valley.