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yeah the fowler thing wasn't really a factor for me. but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm

yeah the fowler thing wasn't really a factor for me. but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm at least. I also was told that the pay is subpar and they expect you to get paid mostly in stocks.

dllthomas 10y ago
> but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm at least. I don't know of any team where that's true. My team is usually out of the office by 6, often earlier. I sometimes have trouble leaving work at the office, but a big part of that is that I'm excited about my project - others do better on that count. > I also was told that the pay is subpar and they expect you to get paid mostly in stocks. I might be able to do better elsewhere if I were better at selling myself, but moving to Uber was a step up for me in cash before considering equity.
- oculusthrift 10y ago
  i guess it's anecdotal evidence against other anecdotal evidence, but i've heard that thing about the hours many times. i even went to the intern open house this summer and the employees admitted it themselves.
  - dllthomas 10y ago
    That's really surprising - especially so recently. Do you know which teams? And this was presented as a typical day, not a rare "everything is on fire, all hands on deck" thing?
    - oculusthrift 10y ago
      there was a table from every engineering org. i think there was like people from the security, platform engineering, mobile, and one other org. I don't want to rat out the two people who told me since they are easily trackable but i heard it from two different teams. I also heard it from the intelligent spend team. This wasn't just from Uber people either. I honestly really wanted to work at Uber and told my friend at Square and he told me he heard the work environment was "toxic". I also told my mentor at my internship that i thought Uber was cool and he said his friend worked there and had insane hours. Finally, my roommates cousin started working at Uber a year ago and has echoed the previous statements. Once again, this is all anecdotal but it's hard to ignore the signs when I've had them from so many sources. I sincerely do believe in Uber's mission and have wanted to work there for years so i'm not trying to be biased at all. edit: And these toxic environment comments were this summer.
      - dllthomas 10y ago
        Interesting. Well, for what it's worth, the management chain in the data org definitely seems to think team health is a priority.

dllthomas 10y ago

> but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm at least. I don't know of any team where that's true. My team is usually out of the office by 6, often earlier. I sometimes have trouble leaving work at the office, but a big part of that is that I'm excited about my project - others do better on that count. > I also was told that the pay is subpar and they expect you to get paid mostly in stocks. I might be able to do better elsewhere if I were better at selling myself, but moving to Uber was a step up for me in cash before considering equity.

oculusthrift 10y ago
i guess it's anecdotal evidence against other anecdotal evidence, but i've heard that thing about the hours many times. i even went to the intern open house this summer and the employees admitted it themselves.
- dllthomas 10y ago
  That's really surprising - especially so recently. Do you know which teams? And this was presented as a typical day, not a rare "everything is on fire, all hands on deck" thing?
  - oculusthrift 10y ago
    there was a table from every engineering org. i think there was like people from the security, platform engineering, mobile, and one other org. I don't want to rat out the two people who told me since they are easily trackable but i heard it from two different teams. I also heard it from the intelligent spend team. This wasn't just from Uber people either. I honestly really wanted to work at Uber and told my friend at Square and he told me he heard the work environment was "toxic". I also told my mentor at my internship that i thought Uber was cool and he said his friend worked there and had insane hours. Finally, my roommates cousin started working at Uber a year ago and has echoed the previous statements. Once again, this is all anecdotal but it's hard to ignore the signs when I've had them from so many sources. I sincerely do believe in Uber's mission and have wanted to work there for years so i'm not trying to be biased at all. edit: And these toxic environment comments were this summer.
    - dllthomas 10y ago
      Interesting. Well, for what it's worth, the management chain in the data org definitely seems to think team health is a priority.