You're being told exaggerated lies by the media. We're not perfect, but the experience for employees is comparable to the other tech giants. I've been at Uber

You're being told exaggerated lies by the media. We're not perfect, but the experience for employees is comparable to the other tech giants. I've been at Uber for about 3 years now and it's been the best place I've ever worked by far. Based on what other current and former colleagues that have worked at other tech giants, it's actually better than most in terms of quality of life. All those that are formerly Amazon, Apple, LinkedIn engineers far prefer it here at Uber, hands down. It's especially better than LinkedIn and Amazon. For Google, it's a mixed bag. Some liked Google better and some liked Uber better. Which you prefer depends on your personality and what team(s) you worked on at each of these two companies. For Facebook, it's actually pretty comparable. If you like Facebook, you'll like Uber and vice-versa. The only big company that I think truly treats its engineers better than Uber across the board is AirBnB. That said, I personally would never trade the engineering problems I get to solve here for the engineering problems I would be solving at AirBnB. The engineering challenges are more than an order of magnitude more interesting and fun at Uber and the room to grow professionally as an engineer is far greater. Between Uber and AirBnB, both are good choices and you should optimize for the one that best meets the needs you want to satisfy.