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Uber Talent Directory

65 points by mavihs 6y ago

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JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.
- ponker 6y ago
  Surprising? They're without income in a city where one-bedrooms rent for $4,000 at a time of low labor demand. Not sure what's surprising about being willing to relocate.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
  Surprising? When you're unemployed during a major economic downturn lots of people would be willing to leave one of the most expensive cities in the country.
  - legerdemain 6y ago
    No, I think it is, in fact, somewhat interesting. I was at Uber until a couple of months ago and left for mostly unrelated reasons. A significant proportion of the people I worked with had 3-5 years of tenure at Uber, families, homes. Not people who could relocate easily, even if they wanted to. There's an obvious and boring explanation for the prevalence of "willing to move" on this list, and that is if the layoffs mostly hit recent and more junior hires. Another company I worked for had a significantly younger and more mobile workforce, and it wasn't uncommon for new hires to move to the bay area from across the country, and then relocate to another regional office or even overseas just as easily.
    - nojito 6y ago
      Many of the people willing to relocate are <3 years out of school and have only worked at Uber for ~1 year
  - karthikb 6y ago
    Not surprising in general, but given the reality that SF is the most tech-dense city in the world, it's an interesting observation that people perceive jobs to be scarce enough that the opportunity cost of leaving is worth more immediate employment.
- dmode 6y ago
  I filtered by NY and Pittsburgh and found the same ratio of people willing to relocate
vikramkr 6y ago
It looks like post layoff they've been going above and beyond what's reasonably expected of a company in their position to treat their employees well. Can't imagine they'd have been like this in the kalanik days. Good for them I guess.
ponker 6y ago
Any idea what the large number of "sales" people in the SF Bay Area do/did for Uber? There isn't an ad business... seems like a marketing-driven customer and driver acquisition program... who is/was Uber directly selling to?
RandomBK 6y ago
This cURL will fetch the full list (JSON). It doesn't seem they put a limit on the graphql endpoint (as of time of writing). curl 'https://www.uber.com/talent/graphql' \ -H 'authority: www.uber.com' \ -H 'accept: */*' \ -H 'x-csrf-token: x' \ -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -H 'origin: https://www.uber.com' \ -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \ -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \ -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \ -H 'referer: https://www.uber.com/talent/' \ --data-binary '{"operationName":"getExTalent","variables":{"offset":0,"limit":10000,"seed":1136864353,"params":{}},"query":"query getExTalent($offset: Int, $limit: Int, $seed: Int, $params: GetTalentParamsInput) {\n getExTalent(offset: $offset, limit: $limit, seed: $seed, params: $params) {\n seed\n totalResults {\n low\n high\n unsigned\n __typename\n }\n results {\n firstName\n lastName\n fullName\n title\n roleType\n roleSubTypes\n summary\n location {\n city\n countryName\n __typename\n }\n relocationWillingness\n resumeLink\n linkedInLink\n otherLink\n dribbleLink\n githubLink\n remoteWillingness\n email\n isManager\n twitterLink\n portfolioLink\n isLooking\n instagramLink\n sharingID\n __typename\n }\n __typename\n }\n}\n"}' \ --compressed This results in 514 entries.
svntid 6y ago
wow reads like an orbituary - shame on uber pulling the easy one on those unfortunate folks
- vikramkr 6y ago
  If the alternative is the company going out of business, this isn't the "easy one." I don't like uber (I'm sure my post history has plenty of anti-uber mini rants...), and even I'll admit this is pretty nice of them. Most companies going through mass layoffs don't give people severance/benefits as good as uber did (AirBNB also did this well), and I can't say I've heard of one going this far to set up a site to try and get them hired.
- mr_coleman 6y ago
  If you want to be extra cynical, think of it as an asset auction listing as part of a liquidation.
- rdbell 6y ago
  If the executive team doesn't let staff go they will be fired by the board. If the board doesn't fire the executive team they will be voted out by the shareholders. If the shareholders don't vote out the board the stock price will plummet and in the best case scenario what's left of Uber gets vacuumed up by another company or activist investors and they go back to step 1 minus any of the severance packages and good-will. It's horribly sad to see mass layoffs but the alternative creates a lot more chaos.
srnvs123 6y ago
Wow, surprising how nice Uber have been during these layoffs. I'm assuming they either cannot afford anymore negative press given that they look like a failing company to the world, OR they've legitimately transformed themselves from the early days. Id say the former, but I hope the latter

65 points by mavihs 6y ago

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JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago

A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.

ponker 6y ago
Surprising? They're without income in a city where one-bedrooms rent for $4,000 at a time of low labor demand. Not sure what's surprising about being willing to relocate.
hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
Surprising? When you're unemployed during a major economic downturn lots of people would be willing to leave one of the most expensive cities in the country.
- legerdemain 6y ago
  No, I think it is, in fact, somewhat interesting. I was at Uber until a couple of months ago and left for mostly unrelated reasons. A significant proportion of the people I worked with had 3-5 years of tenure at Uber, families, homes. Not people who could relocate easily, even if they wanted to. There's an obvious and boring explanation for the prevalence of "willing to move" on this list, and that is if the layoffs mostly hit recent and more junior hires. Another company I worked for had a significantly younger and more mobile workforce, and it wasn't uncommon for new hires to move to the bay area from across the country, and then relocate to another regional office or even overseas just as easily.
  - nojito 6y ago
    Many of the people willing to relocate are <3 years out of school and have only worked at Uber for ~1 year
- karthikb 6y ago
  Not surprising in general, but given the reality that SF is the most tech-dense city in the world, it's an interesting observation that people perceive jobs to be scarce enough that the opportunity cost of leaving is worth more immediate employment.
dmode 6y ago
I filtered by NY and Pittsburgh and found the same ratio of people willing to relocate

vikramkr 6y ago

It looks like post layoff they've been going above and beyond what's reasonably expected of a company in their position to treat their employees well. Can't imagine they'd have been like this in the kalanik days. Good for them I guess.

ponker 6y ago

Any idea what the large number of "sales" people in the SF Bay Area do/did for Uber? There isn't an ad business... seems like a marketing-driven customer and driver acquisition program... who is/was Uber directly selling to?

RandomBK 6y ago

This cURL will fetch the full list (JSON). It doesn't seem they put a limit on the graphql endpoint (as of time of writing). curl 'https://www.uber.com/talent/graphql' \ -H 'authority: www.uber.com' \ -H 'accept: */*' \ -H 'x-csrf-token: x' \ -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -H 'origin: https://www.uber.com' \ -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \ -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \ -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \ -H 'referer: https://www.uber.com/talent/' \ --data-binary '{"operationName":"getExTalent","variables":{"offset":0,"limit":10000,"seed":1136864353,"params":{}},"query":"query getExTalent($offset: Int, $limit: Int, $seed: Int, $params: GetTalentParamsInput) {\n getExTalent(offset: $offset, limit: $limit, seed: $seed, params: $params) {\n seed\n totalResults {\n low\n high\n unsigned\n __typename\n }\n results {\n firstName\n lastName\n fullName\n title\n roleType\n roleSubTypes\n summary\n location {\n city\n countryName\n __typename\n }\n relocationWillingness\n resumeLink\n linkedInLink\n otherLink\n dribbleLink\n githubLink\n remoteWillingness\n email\n isManager\n twitterLink\n portfolioLink\n isLooking\n instagramLink\n sharingID\n __typename\n }\n __typename\n }\n}\n"}' \ --compressed This results in 514 entries.

svntid 6y ago

wow reads like an orbituary - shame on uber pulling the easy one on those unfortunate folks

vikramkr 6y ago
If the alternative is the company going out of business, this isn't the "easy one." I don't like uber (I'm sure my post history has plenty of anti-uber mini rants...), and even I'll admit this is pretty nice of them. Most companies going through mass layoffs don't give people severance/benefits as good as uber did (AirBNB also did this well), and I can't say I've heard of one going this far to set up a site to try and get them hired.
mr_coleman 6y ago
If you want to be extra cynical, think of it as an asset auction listing as part of a liquidation.
rdbell 6y ago
If the executive team doesn't let staff go they will be fired by the board. If the board doesn't fire the executive team they will be voted out by the shareholders. If the shareholders don't vote out the board the stock price will plummet and in the best case scenario what's left of Uber gets vacuumed up by another company or activist investors and they go back to step 1 minus any of the severance packages and good-will. It's horribly sad to see mass layoffs but the alternative creates a lot more chaos.

srnvs123 6y ago

Wow, surprising how nice Uber have been during these layoffs. I'm assuming they either cannot afford anymore negative press given that they look like a failing company to the world, OR they've legitimately transformed themselves from the early days. Id say the former, but I hope the latter