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Anyone who is miserable has already left in 2017. Many long time employees are waiting for SoftBank deal to close before leaving which makes sense. They deserve

Anyone who is miserable has already left in 2017. Many long time employees are waiting for SoftBank deal to close before leaving which makes sense. They deserve to be enriched for their hard work. But they are only a couple of hundred employees at most. We have 15,000+ employees and 3,000 engineers. I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG. If the company doesn’t want to hire me because of where I work, I’m happy to not work for anyone who makes snap judgements based on resume line items. That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. I’m happy never working for or alongside people like that.

holaluz 9y ago
Hola que ase?
mercutio2 9y ago
You think bias against someone living in a particular city is comparable to bias against someone voluntarily working for a company with an unprecedented reputation for unethical behavior top to bottom stretching back years and years? My cohort of friends, many of whom are hiring managers, won’t even patronize Uber, much less hire someone who voluntarily worked there without demonstrably showing signs of serious soul searching about the ethics of the company.
- ajiang 9y ago
  Seriously? That sounds like quite an exaggeration. Do you believe, in earnest, that all 15,000 people that work at Uber are not worth hiring?
- walshemj 9y ago
  Really I have heard reports of much worse about MCI.
- pfarnsworth 9y ago
  Unprecedented? I guess you weren't around during the dotcom days or you don't know much about Wall Street companies.
tootie 9y ago
3000 engineers seems like a ludicrous number for a taxi company. I'd expect the new CEO to start shrinking to focus on core business.
- adventured 9y ago
  Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees. 3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.
  - raiyu 9y ago
    Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B. Still nothing to scoff at.
    - uberemployee 9y ago
      The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.
  - tootie 9y ago
    Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.
untog 9y ago
> That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. Obviously it isn't. You don't choose the city you grow up in, and you have a limited choice over the school you go to. Football team is perhaps the closest in your list - if you support a team that has repeatedly cheated to win games then perhaps it's not unreasonable to judge a person based on their loyalty to that team. To be clear, I'm not actually that convinced in the argument to not hire Uber employees based on their employment record. But we should at least represent the argument correctly.
spaceflunky 9y ago
>I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG. Given that your name is "uberemployee"... and that your comment history shows you are for lack of a better term an uber jingoist, I have to ask... How do I know you're not some HR shill trying to do damage control? /I say this half jokingly

holaluz 9y ago

Hola que ase?

mercutio2 9y ago

You think bias against someone living in a particular city is comparable to bias against someone voluntarily working for a company with an unprecedented reputation for unethical behavior top to bottom stretching back years and years? My cohort of friends, many of whom are hiring managers, won’t even patronize Uber, much less hire someone who voluntarily worked there without demonstrably showing signs of serious soul searching about the ethics of the company.

ajiang 9y ago
Seriously? That sounds like quite an exaggeration. Do you believe, in earnest, that all 15,000 people that work at Uber are not worth hiring?
walshemj 9y ago
Really I have heard reports of much worse about MCI.
pfarnsworth 9y ago
Unprecedented? I guess you weren't around during the dotcom days or you don't know much about Wall Street companies.

tootie 9y ago

3000 engineers seems like a ludicrous number for a taxi company. I'd expect the new CEO to start shrinking to focus on core business.

adventured 9y ago
Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees. 3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.
- raiyu 9y ago
  Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B. Still nothing to scoff at.
  - uberemployee 9y ago
    The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.
- tootie 9y ago
  Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.

untog 9y ago

> That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. Obviously it isn't. You don't choose the city you grow up in, and you have a limited choice over the school you go to. Football team is perhaps the closest in your list - if you support a team that has repeatedly cheated to win games then perhaps it's not unreasonable to judge a person based on their loyalty to that team. To be clear, I'm not actually that convinced in the argument to not hire Uber employees based on their employment record. But we should at least represent the argument correctly.

spaceflunky 9y ago

>I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG. Given that your name is "uberemployee"... and that your comment history shows you are for lack of a better term an uber jingoist, I have to ask... How do I know you're not some HR shill trying to do damage control? /I say this half jokingly