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I visited Uber HQ recently. The chairs and desks in open office area are crumbled in each other. Uber employees joke about it and say it's "surge seating"!
by msoad 11y ago
I visited Uber HQ recently. The chairs and desks in open office area are crumbled in each other. Uber employees joke about it and say it's "surge seating"!
- p4wnc6 11y agoI had two rounds of interviews with Uber. I asked how they provide productivity-enhancing space, space that is suitably quiet and private to enable bare minimum conditions for working on software, and there was no answer. I'm sad at how recruiters have attempted to co-opt the word "collaborative" and try to repurpose it to mean "you can smell your colleague's lunch every time he takes a breath". Open plan offices are not collaborative. They facilitate superficial interactions in which people try to give only the most shallow answers necessary to get the other person to go away, because everyone is so over-stimulated with constant interpersonal interaction. These environments are interactive, for sure. In fact, they are relentlessly interactive. But collaboration is productive interaction. And open plan offices definitely do not provide that. I noped out of the Uber interviews as soon as I learned that they don't view working conditions as a fundamental technology used for productivity. Even if the firm is financially successful (so far, mostly by society's failure to punish them for their blatant bad behavior) it's too much of a hell hole to possibly consider enduring.