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I'm not sure if this is necessarily indicative of harassment at FB/Google. I've heard rumors that SRE at Uber was pretty bad. I had classmate who interned out i

by chris11 10y ago

I'm not sure if this is necessarily indicative of harassment at FB/Google. I've heard rumors that SRE at Uber was pretty bad. I had classmate who interned out in the bay area and was thinking about working in SRE. They mentioned that Uber was poaching a lot of engineers to do SRE work with crazy high offers. But they wouldn't stay around a long time because apparently both the technical and non-technical cultures were pretty bad. Sometimes jobs can be a lot a lot worse than you expected, and you can't really change much as a new hire.

GauntletWizard 10y ago
I just quit Uber SRE after only six months. There was a combination of really bad tech and really bad culture - There was a huge seniority culture despite the face that nobody had been there for more than three years. There was a focus on 'big impact' that felt just like a recent article[1] about feature mills - Despite being, you know, the division charged with keeping things going. They'd drilled and drilled on solving simple problems, but hadn't fixed the engineering reasons why those problems kept showing up. And they couldn't keep technical staff who knew what they were doing. The people I actually liked and respected at Uber were leaving in droves. Even new hires barely stuck around - A full third of my new hire orientation class left before me. And, oh, yeah - I had three managers in that six months. One was fired, one quit precisely at his one year, and the third had 70 direct reports. If you see candidates coming from Uber, tenure past a year is a warning sign. I knew a few I'd want to work with again - A lot more I wouldn't. [1]https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-44a5b938d6a2#.9b8uajv1g https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-f...

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I'm not sure if this is necessarily indicative of harassment at FB/Google. I've heard rumors that SRE at Uber was pretty bad. I had classmate who interned out i

by chris11 10y ago

GauntletWizard 10y ago
I just quit Uber SRE after only six months. There was a combination of really bad tech and really bad culture - There was a huge seniority culture despite the face that nobody had been there for more than three years. There was a focus on 'big impact' that felt just like a recent article[1] about feature mills - Despite being, you know, the division charged with keeping things going. They'd drilled and drilled on solving simple problems, but hadn't fixed the engineering reasons why those problems kept showing up. And they couldn't keep technical staff who knew what they were doing. The people I actually liked and respected at Uber were leaving in droves. Even new hires barely stuck around - A full third of my new hire orientation class left before me. And, oh, yeah - I had three managers in that six months. One was fired, one quit precisely at his one year, and the third had 70 direct reports. If you see candidates coming from Uber, tenure past a year is a warning sign. I knew a few I'd want to work with again - A lot more I wouldn't. [1]https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-44a5b938d6a2#.9b8uajv1g https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-f...