2 ms·
This seems alarmingly broad. In 2015, Uber employed 1,200+ engineers. Some of them worked in insular settings like self-driving research where they might never
by Bartweiss 10y ago
This seems alarmingly broad.
In 2015, Uber employed 1,200+ engineers. Some of them worked in insular settings like self-driving research where they might never meet the people recently in the news, or even hear stories. (Yes, some of this has hit the news before. No, that doesn't mean everyone heard about it, even in-industry.)
Compare to some place like Amazon, where it's pretty well-established that the answer to "how's the engineering culture?" is "depends entirely on which part of engineering you're in". If you dislike the Amazon.com product ranking team, are you going to blackball AWS SREs for it?
If the idea is that Uber's business model itself is the ethical problem, then yeah, you could hold all the engineers accountable for that. But that's a very different question than the internal crises.
(Also, do remember that "ample other opportunity" isn't very applicable to anyone on a visa tied to Uber.)
- zorpner 10y ago(Also, do remember that "ample other opportunity" isn't very applicable to anyone on a visa tied to Uber.) I don't really agree with the rest of your comment (I think Uber has had enough broad ethical problems over the last several years that hearing stories would be inevitable), but this is a fair point, and I'd like to acknowledge that I missed it. Thank you for pointing this out.