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by employee8000 9y ago
Nah. I'm not too concerned about what close minded people with preconceived notions have about me or my employability. I don't think any Uber employee will have problems finding jobs, regardless of what you think.
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by employee8000 9y ago
Thats your prerogative. I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt. After seeing him speak and seeing the changes that have started to roll out, I believe he is sincere. 215 were investigated and 20 people fired. There are ~15000 employe
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by employee8000 9y ago
You can choose to believe the anecdotes of an Uber employee who presumably is drinking from the Kool Aid, or media reports that demonize Uber and don't report on any of the good things that have been going on.
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by employee8000 9y ago
Yes, star performers were protected in the past. Not anymore. Many top performers were fired due to this recent investigation. Hopefully more are fired after the Holder report. "Women leaving in droves" is a lie. The recent demogr
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by employee8000 9y ago
When did I say that the account was wrong?
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by employee8000 9y ago
No, this is bullshit. Since I joined, Uber has been behaving very ethically. Yes, there have been problems, which are mainly with unchecked culture in some groups, but I think things have turned around for the entire company. There have bee
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by employee8000 9y ago
Do you feel the same way about Uber?
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by employee8000 9y ago
I use Firefox and chrome regularly. Firefox is worse by an order of magnitude but I still use it. The main issues for me are any type of video is terrible on FF vs chrome. It also feels much much slower. But I trust it a bit more than I do
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by employee8000 9y ago
Silicon Valley season 3. I love how that TV show is skewering the entire Valley and shows how ridiculously predictable we are.
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by employee8000 9y ago
Personally, I agree and we will have to wait and see what happens ultimately. Amazon tried this a few years ago, and I believe they stopped doing this but I'm not sure. But if I knew or suspected that Amazon was trying to squeeze a few
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by employee8000 9y ago
If every Twitter accusation and perceived injustice against Uber were investigated, there wouldn't be enough time in the day for anything else. I had an Uber ride from a driver who accused Uber of paying a lower surge rate than what th
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by employee8000 9y ago
Uber employee here. No, absolutely not. We would not do this, and large swaths of the company, like myself, would quit if this were the case.
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by employee8000 9y ago
Incredibly ignorant statement. In many parts of Asia, including South Asia, having live in servants is very common. Philippines and Indonesia are just two examples.
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by employee8000 9y ago
It's only hacker news, don't get so worked up. People are allowed to disagree with you regardless of what you feel your best intentions are. Why do you care what anonymous internet people think?
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by employee8000 9y ago
False. Libertarianism isn't fascism or totalitarianism. It's about freedom.
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by employee8000 9y ago
The founder made millions making and selling cold press juice bars on the east coast. This is just taking that idea and "bringing it to the masses". Calling it a scam is ignorant. I've heard of dumber ideas with less successf
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by employee8000 9y ago
It wouldn't taste as good in a preserved bottle vs squeezed right there in front of you.
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by employee8000 9y ago
Lol $5 per glass? More like $10. But if you went to some of the juice bars it would cost $15. So the advantage would be having it in your own home with no mess. Don't mistake me for a champion of this product. I think largely it'
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by employee8000 9y ago
I know a couple of people that work at Juicero and unlike 99% of you I've actually tried the juices. To call it a scam is harsh. There are legitimate concerns with supply chain, what foods can be mixed together because of acidity and
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by employee8000 9y ago
At google, I was given some code that manipulated some bits and the interviewer, in inexplicably terrible English, kept asking me what the purpose of this code was for. He has a very thick Eastern European accent which was not understandab
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by employee8000 9y ago
H1B is a privilege not a right. You seemed to have done quite well for yourself, more proof that h1b isn't endentured servitude if you're good enough.
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by employee8000 9y ago
The abuse and exploitation of the h1b by Indian bodyshop and lack of action by Bush and Obama have ruined it for everyone. I hope the body shops go out of business and we get a more sane immigration visas. But we need immigration. Thinking
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by employee8000 9y ago
My very good friend is Indian on H1B. In the last 10 years he has had 4 jobs and is making >200k/yr base. I know white people that are in the same job for 10+ years and can't get another job because their skills degraded. H1Bs
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by employee8000 9y ago
The problem with all of these mobile apps is you just need ONE of your contacts to upload your information, and then you're fucked. That's why I've given up trying to hide my details because they already have it. The idea tha
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by employee8000 9y ago
Unless you stick with a single Kafka partition (which might not withstand the load) I don't think you can consume the events in exact chronological order.
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by employee8000 9y ago
You're not disagreeing with what I wrote.
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by employee8000 9y ago
And yet most people are memorizing solutions to hundreds of different questions and getting great jobs because of it. I know this because I have several friends who do this.
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by employee8000 9y ago
This is a stupid trivia question. I use ps -ef and leave it at that. In my entire career I've rarely needed anything else and if I did I would look it up but never enough to remember. To base an interview question off of that speaks vo
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by employee8000 9y ago
It's not ideal but to call it useless is arrogant and immature. It's a decent indicator of how the blue caps are doing in the markets. SP500 is arguable better but the DJI isn't useless.
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by employee8000 9y ago
I work for Uber. I would have tried to figure out wtf was going on because that's not how we do business, as far as I know.

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