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Meet Uber’s software engineer apprentices
- sidcool 9y agoA great initiative. It's funny though, how hard they are trying to shed their image as a misogynistic organization. Probably in the right direction hopefully.
- slivym 9y agoIt's nice, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. I've worked in companies that have had toxic cultures before and bringing young and inexperienced people into that situation was a really bad idea. This is a good idea for a company that doesn't have Uber's problems, but the worry is that you're taking people's first experience in computer science and making it a part of a culture clash. You're likely to re-entrench the existing culture and push these people out of software engineering for good.
- bastawhiz 9y agoIt's fascinating to me that two years ago, these folks would have been happily hired as "eng 1". Entire teams were composed of folks that had just completed boot camps. I'd love to hear from one of those current/former junior engineers about what they think of this new program and whether it feels like a slight.