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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 thi

• 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.