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by uberemployee 6y ago
What you describe was definitely not a common occurrence. Engineering wasn’t toxic for many years until the last 9-12 months or so I would say. Pre-Susan Fowler memo, it was the best company I had ever worked at. From 2017-2019 we sort of s
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by uberemployee 6y ago
When I worked at Uber, this project was openly mocked. One of the CTO’s biggest failures was implementing a promotion scheme where you needed to create a new service in order to be considered “innovative”. This promotion scheme marked what
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by uberemployee 9y ago
The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.
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by uberemployee 9y ago
I’m sorry you had a terrible interview experience. In 2017 we hired Gayle Laakmann McDowell (CTCI author) to train engineers on how to interview better and how to design better interview questions that weren’t biased. She held many sessions
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by uberemployee 9y ago
FF is great. She is leading online courses for all Uber employees about business strategy and culture from real Harvard professors. It’s very educational for everyone. It’s a very unique opportunity for us because she is an expert on what m
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by uberemployee 9y ago
What do you mean by cultural excesses?
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by uberemployee 9y ago
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 emplo
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by uberemployee 9y ago
Dara couldn’t be more perfect for who we need as a CEO right now and going forward. Culture is definitely shifting toward a more normal work life balance. Things were crazy for many years with how much people worked but for the most part it
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by uberemployee 9y ago
Some of the assertions from the author about how things were in the past are pretty off. Office 2000 wasn't happy with 75 MHz and 32 MB ram at all. I would say the average computer at that time was at least 200MHz with 128MB of RAM.
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by uberemployee 9y ago
Uber was on Hipchat, briefly experimented with Slack, went back to Hipchat, and then moved to our own Inhouse chat based on open source project, starting around the beginning the year. It was bad the first few months, but except for a recen
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by uberemployee 9y ago
He wasn't opposed to taking Uber public, he wanted to delay IPO as long as possible because going public places restrictions on how the company is run. Dara said the same comment. But 18-36 months doesn't go against anything TK
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by uberemployee 9y ago
Guys this is somewhat fake news. The question was what his thoughts were on IPO. He basically said it's up to the board, but 18 to 36 months seemed reasonable. It wasn't like he's actually planning on IPOing in 18 months,
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by uberemployee 9y ago
I worked with him. Seems like a nice guy, smart. But he's product manager, and that's it. I don't know the story as to why this was picked up but it isn't a very important story. Unless first level product managers are n
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by uberemployee 9y ago
He isn't head of anything. He's a first level product manager that gave himself the title "Head of Developer Product". Recode wrote this last night and TechCrunch just cut and paste it. This is how fake news gets propaga
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by uberemployee 9y ago
As an Uber employee, I can say this: although the feelings on TK are mixed (some loving TK, others glad that he's gone), the feelings about Benchmark are pretty uniform. They are only out for themselves, and nothing they have done hav