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Does it make having "Uber" in your Career Profile look bad now? Even if someone wants to genuinely switch job within next few month out of Uber, It would raise
by ramshanker 9y ago
Does it make having "Uber" in your Career Profile look bad now?
Even if someone wants to genuinely switch job within next few month out of Uber, It would raise eyebrows at next interview table. So Uber gonna have very mall attrition rate now. Every action has both side of coin. :)
- zorpner 9y agoDepending on where you are, it already has been. I recruited a friend recently who worked for Uber two jobs ago, and got objections at multiple levels (pulled them through because I knew they left Uber originally due to ethical objections and could speak to that directly). At this point having it in your job history needs to be addressed in your e-mail/cover letter.
- idiotdummy 9y ago>I recruited a friend recently who worked for Uber two jobs ago, and got objections at multiple levels So Silicon Valley has a sexual harassment problem and a prejudice problem?
- samstave 9y agoWhat about a zenifits job? They had to BAN sex in the stairwells and drinking on the job
- zorpner 9y agoHaving a problem and addressing it is different than having a problem and not addressing it for years (and yeah, I might ask an ex-Zenefits prospect how they felt about that). Is that unclear or difficult to understand?
- samstave 9y agoI think you read tone into my comment where there was none. Mine was a valid question; "in your opinion, iss Zenifits also seen poorly on a resume, given the fact that it is known that the CEO had to step down and they had to take measures to ban sex and drinking in the office, and this is amplified by the fact that they are a freaking HR company" - - I would think that if anyone is familiar with the Valley, that they would certainly know the Zenifits story and should rightfully-aise eyebrows if they see the positions on a resume... I wasnt challenging your comment, I wa agreeing with it and adding zenefits to the naughty list.
- zorpner 9y agoAh, gotcha. My apologies, not always easy to gauge intent!
- J5892 9y agoOr UploadVR! I read several reports of their "kink room", but I never did read any reports that they actually got rid of the "kink room".
- mlindner 9y agoWhat company is that so I know to avoid it? Sounds like you should get out of there.
- zorpner 9y agoNah. I like working somewhere where ethics are taken seriously. If you've been working for Uber for the last couple years (in an engineering role, and not visa-restricted), you need to have an answer for why you've remained someplace with so many serious ethical issues. And to be clear, "I needed to pay bills" is a real answer. But you need to have it and be willing to say it and defend it.
- ryandrake 9y agoI don't see how it's productive to put a scarlet letter on someone simply based on where he or she used to work as "third engineer from the left." Maybe one day the place where you currently happen to work will earn some kind of tarnished reputation--should your career suffer because of it? Should you have to quit out of fear of being put on a blacklist, putting your livelihood at risk?
- int_19h 9y agoThe crucial part here is the nature of the reputation. We're not talking about some shady dealings of the upper management, that individual employees may or may not have been aware of. We're talking about employee culture inside the company - something that is, by definition, exposed to and shaped by employees. Given the magnitude of the problem in Uber, on the basis of reports we've seen so far, on the balance of probabilities, it would be more surprising than not for an engineer who works there to be unaware that such things are going on around them. And if they were aware, but didn't blow the whistle (after going through the usual HR complaint process and running into blocks there, as others have reported), that is definitely a very questionable ethical choice that deserves future scrutiny, including for anyone hiring that person.
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- dopamean 9y agoHonestly, that sounds a little ridiculous and I wouldn't want to interview at the company you work for.
- NetStrikeForce 9y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a thing and I know people turning down Uber recruiters because they don't want to be associated with Uber's wrongdoings and questionable morals.
- fixermark 9y agoTurning down Uber recruiters is different from other recruiters turning down ex-Uber candidates. There's no reason a person should be expected to board what they perceive to be a sinking ship.
- njj023 9y agoYou'd have to be one foolish hiring manager to make blanket generalizations on Uber employees like this – and thankfully I haven't seen many instances of that. Most Uber employees that do leave tend to have no issues finding a job at the FANGs of the world. This is easily verifiable on LinkedIn.
- ungzd 9y agoPeople worked in Uber are automatically considered rapists now, only if they worked for one month and fleed in panic from there.
- mlindner 9y agoIf having Uber in my career profile makes me look bad to a prospective company then I don't want to work at that company. If the company policy I'm applying to is so toxic that they feel the need to purge people for minor things then I would never want to work there.
- mandevil 9y agoExcuse me, sir or madam. You seem to have accidentally included sexual harassment in the category of "minor things." I presume that you are not such an awful human being that you actually believe this, so I would suggest choosing your words more carefully in the future so that people don't accidentally consider you terrible.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoGoogle had many reported cases of sexual harrassment. Is having Google in your resume a bad thing too?
- s73ver 9y agoGoogle doesn't have a reputation of ignoring it to the point where they tacitly encourage it, like Uber does.
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- anghor 9y agoI'd never hire anyone who had worked for Uber anyway. They're far too loose with the truth/superiority complex. uber = above, as in above the law