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What's it like to show up to work at Uber? Do people just sit there miserably while they constantly remind themselves that a "big payday" is on the way like som
by spaceflunky 9y ago
What's it like to show up to work at Uber? Do people just sit there miserably while they constantly remind themselves that a "big payday" is on the way like some kind of perverse mantra?
What if the pay day never comes? How will it look when your resume says you stayed at Uber well after everything has been revealed?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoIf your question is sincere, it's nothing too different from going to work to any other company, especially with Dara getting to act like the good cop. Source: know quite a few Uber employees.
- naturalgradient 9y agoWell, that is the thing right? People historically went to work in any number of unethical organisations, including industrialised mass murder, human experiments, knowingly poisoning or defrauding people..the list is endless, and it was just any other job to them. The structure of an organisation means nobody feels individual ethical responsibility, they are just doing their job after all. In fact, I would say most corporate employees feel like that about the large anonymous bureaucracies they work in, but there is still a good number of people for whom this is unacceptable, the type that ends up saying no to hush money, the type that whisteb-lowers, the type that ends up being shot for part of a resistance against a dictatorship, and so on. People again and again do this even though it often has terrible consequences for their personal fate, and I think this is the exact same kind of person who does not want to hire or work with the other type, the one that just does their job.
- derwiki 9y agoI don't think it looks bad on a resume. Anecdotally, all of the candidates I've interviewed who work at Uber presently have been quite good.
- mLuby 9y agoIt does to me. Specifically, it says the person either tolerates or contributes to what is widely regarded as one of the most toxic work cultures in software; same goes for Amazon. Up to me to determine whether they're the former or latter. Granted, when they joined and when they left and why makes some difference, but it's still not a great starting place for a candidate.
- autokad 9y agoits good to know you judge people by where they come from and not what they can do / have done.
- maym86 9y agoSeems entirety reasonable to judge on both. A persons impact on your company is not just what they can do but also how they behave.
- ryguytilidie 9y agoActually, it sounds exactly like he's judging people based on what they "have done".
- Karunamon 9y agoThis reply right here is why I turned down Uber when a recruiter reached out to me. I have no moral qualms about a company that ignores taxi laws, but the irrational reputational damage has been done, no matter how much they cleaned up the workplace. Hiring is already enough of a mind game with without adding "worked for a company the tech press loves to shred every chance they get" to my list of worries.
- hodgesrm 9y agoThe tech people I know are attracted by the chance to solve some very interesting problems at large scale.
- ionised 9y agoEthics should enter into as well. The fact that it doesn't is a failure on the part of the education system.
- uberemployee 9y agoAnyone who is miserable has already left in 2017. Many long time employees are waiting for SoftBank deal to close before leaving which makes sense. They deserve to be enriched for their hard work. But they are only a couple of hundred employees at most. We have 15,000+ employees and 3,000 engineers. I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG. If the company doesn’t want to hire me because of where I work, I’m happy to not work for anyone who makes snap judgements based on resume line items. That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. I’m happy never working for or alongside people like that.
- holaluz 9y agoHola que ase?
- mercutio2 9y agoYou think bias against someone living in a particular city is comparable to bias against someone voluntarily working for a company with an unprecedented reputation for unethical behavior top to bottom stretching back years and years? My cohort of friends, many of whom are hiring managers, won’t even patronize Uber, much less hire someone who voluntarily worked there without demonstrably showing signs of serious soul searching about the ethics of the company.
- ajiang 9y agoSeriously? That sounds like quite an exaggeration. Do you believe, in earnest, that all 15,000 people that work at Uber are not worth hiring?
- walshemj 9y agoReally I have heard reports of much worse about MCI.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoUnprecedented? I guess you weren't around during the dotcom days or you don't know much about Wall Street companies.