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I wonder if the CTO really "resigned" or was kicked out. Uber's engineering culture is well known for not thinking about costs early in development. Moreover,

I wonder if the CTO really "resigned" or was kicked out. Uber's engineering culture is well known for not thinking about costs early in development. Moreover, ignoring infra costs, the revenue per engineer is really low, it is at around 1 million dollars per engineer; 11BN revenue / 10k engineers. I work for a team in which the revenue per engineers is 2 times higher than that and we aren't any sort of unicorn.

newfriend 6y ago
Do you have a source for them having 10k engineers? That seems extremely high. I'm going to guess that you are wrong, and grossly exaggerating numbers to stroke your ego or because of bias. Also I'm sure you understand that things change with scale. Comparing a tiny irrelevant company to a global one may not be as straightforward as you think. Edit From the article: > which comes as the 3,800-person Uber engineering group I was right, your numbers are way off.
- DevKoala 6y ago
  I got my numbers from a projection that also had them at 11BN revenue by now. The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN. So yeah, Uber makes earns very little per engineer/product member compared to healthy companies. https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2020/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2019/ https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det... Btw, no bias, but interesting that you took it there. What motivated the comment? Can't someone be critical of the performance of an executive? It seems that a lot of people believe that running things at scale somehow requires defying basic business principles, when in reality is quite the contrary. You need to be even more vigilant of those metrics.
  - newfriend 6y ago
    > The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN You are wrong, again. 4.1BN is the revenue for Q4. From your very own link: > GAAP Revenue 2019: $14BN So yeah, I guess it's much healthier than your company isn't it? It's fine to be critical, but let's not make up fake numbers and then draw conclusions from that. There also seem to be many people here who are overly critical of Uber specifically because of it's image.
    - DevKoala 6y ago
      I see I was wrong. I am not making up fake data, I read the data wrong.

newfriend 6y ago

Do you have a source for them having 10k engineers? That seems extremely high. I'm going to guess that you are wrong, and grossly exaggerating numbers to stroke your ego or because of bias. Also I'm sure you understand that things change with scale. Comparing a tiny irrelevant company to a global one may not be as straightforward as you think. Edit From the article: > which comes as the 3,800-person Uber engineering group I was right, your numbers are way off.

DevKoala 6y ago
I got my numbers from a projection that also had them at 11BN revenue by now. The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN. So yeah, Uber makes earns very little per engineer/product member compared to healthy companies. https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2020/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2019/ https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det... Btw, no bias, but interesting that you took it there. What motivated the comment? Can't someone be critical of the performance of an executive? It seems that a lot of people believe that running things at scale somehow requires defying basic business principles, when in reality is quite the contrary. You need to be even more vigilant of those metrics.
- newfriend 6y ago
  > The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN You are wrong, again. 4.1BN is the revenue for Q4. From your very own link: > GAAP Revenue 2019: $14BN So yeah, I guess it's much healthier than your company isn't it? It's fine to be critical, but let's not make up fake numbers and then draw conclusions from that. There also seem to be many people here who are overly critical of Uber specifically because of it's image.
  - DevKoala 6y ago
    I see I was wrong. I am not making up fake data, I read the data wrong.