It's a fantastic company. The problems you'll solve in backend engineering and distributed systems. It is truly amazing. You won't get boring tasks, you'll get actual work that will be impactful. There is a lot of algorithms as well, especially on some of the core teams that you could get in. People here are very smart, a lot of experienced people from Google and Facebook. You can't go wrong here for learning potential and reputation. Uber is a top company.
What is salesforce doing? At least Uber makes it easier for people who have no degrees earn a decent amount of money. Uber also helps people who aren't super rich to afford a cab. What is salesforce doing to help people? Build saas products that power unethical companies? Think before speaking
Once again that's off topic (this thread was about the lawsuit and stolen technology). I do not agree with Uber management, especially atg management, I have said countless times Eric is incompetent and should be fired. I'm not defending Uber in general just rectifying the truth about the lawsuit.
Uber may or may not have been guilty of IP theft in a legal sense, we won’t ever know for sure. but clearly they were getting as close to the line as possible. The entire Levandowski affair reeks.
AL did his shady things while being at Google, that has nothing to do with Uber. That tells as much about Google employees than Uber. He screwed Uber as much as he screwed Google
@Salesforce Have you watched the video of the in car view when the ATG Phoenix incident happened? The person was jaywalking when the car was at a high speed. A real person would have also run over the pedestrian. not saying ATG is amazing or anything but you should watch the video to really see what's happening.
I disagree on that, a human driver attentive on the road would have most likely avoid the accident. Now the technology wasn't ready and that's why the were a safety human driver paid to look at the road... I also blame Eric for taking many bad decision that made this crash possible. That being said, I'm sure plenty of other companies have employees who get involved in a fatal accident while driving on duty. There is no difference here, the accident is not because the car did something expected but because the employee did not do his job.
Wait, no. Uber didn’t have the proper safety precautions or safety training for the safety drivers period. They also didn’t have the emergency brake in the Volvo activated for who knows what reason. Probably because of some mindless worker forgetting this critical piece. If they did all of that, and this fatality occurred, then let’s point fingers at the safety driver. Otherwise, STFU, you know it’s Uber at fault.
My car doesn't have an emergency break either and most car on the road don't, you can't blame it on that. You know nothing about the safety training for the safety driver, so STFU, watching a movie instead of watching the road is definitely not what we teach them, if we were talking about some accident because the safety driver failed to react properly you would have a point. But here we talk about a safety driver who decided to watch movie rather than doing her job
lol fuck that. working in tech is already bad enough without an above average concentration of awful ethically bankrupt koolaid drinkers for co-workers
Go read the post by Horowitz about why Under wants to be nice to drivers. Self driving cars is not coming until much later, and there are a lot that can do done with all these labor
@zrooper : Uber is worth $70 Billion because of the potential it has to expand into so many industries. Think about food delivery, goods delivery. Valuation won’t increase just because you can apply automation to your business.
Now, it is not evil just because it is introducing self-driving cars. By that logic, Amazon should be the most evil company. Its warehouse must have many robots, they are thinking about drone delivery, they are introducing automated checkout etc.
Drivers might be eventually replaced by self-driving cars, but that's not "evil" any more than other job-destroying tech advances are. But it does highlight the need for universal basic income, because most jobs will be going away within 20 years, in a way that is categorically different to changes in the past.
That's trite, but businesses are made up of people, most of whom are ethical. Look at Elizabeth Warren's plan to introduce ethics into the heart of the corporation.
How’s is the treatment of drivers unfair? Uber is burning/losing money and is not profitable yet drivers want a raise? They are the only ones making money and have multiple platforms to choose from🤷🏻♂️
They're mostly organized by Taxi unions. I took a trip from SFO to my home in the Peninsula and the cab driver charged me $275. I ended up paying it and not arguing bc we had just been on a 17 hour flight and my three young children and wife were in tow and I didn't want any drama. Never again. Uber has price transparency, safety, and nice drivers (otherwise they get bad ratings and get kicked off our platform). If that is causing protests, then that is a good thing. Fuck the Taxi mafia
No they're not organized by drivers. They're organized by Taxi unions. Theyre full of cars rounding the corner that doesn't even have an Uber logo on it
I’ve been through 3.5 years of dealing with your protests — they come in all different flavors: sexual harassment, driver rights, taxi unions. Take your pick.
Pretty bad culture, overshadows everything else. I’ve been on different teams and the political battles are the same everywhere, and getting worse as the company grows. Building empires is rewarded, being scrappy is not. Pretty much the opposite of a startup
I can give you 2..... A new person in my team forgot to do a simple task, no big deal, but 2 other members of the team confronted that person in a meeting about it and bullied them in front of everyone. My manager just shrugged it off and let them do it.
Second example is more recent, when the bonuses were announced. Team members openly shared what they got and started arguing with each other about not deserving it.
More regular examples include people actively undermining other teams/functions and often referring to others in dismissive and negative terms.
I’ve just left uber. I know first hand that bills aren’t being paid to major partners. No explanation given by AP when I emailed them repeatedly on behalf of the partners. It was embarrassing! The culture is trash. Absolute trash. If you say you “love working for uber” you’re probably part of that trash culture. I regretted my decision within week 7. I’m not putting them on my resume because I’m embarrassed to speak of them or my time there.
It was never meant for cash-strapped human beings. It was supposed to be tag along driving for anyone. Humans overkilled the usage and blame the tech. Similarly goes for WhatsApp story in India.
Of course Uber would deny that, all their drone workers have no concept of reality. It's the Silicon Valley kool-aid drunkenness except it's 30x worse because that's what Uber claims they're worth.
We have q n a at the end of every all hands meeting, employees can questions anonymously over slido. We have anonymous complaint line. You can bring issues to your manager or skip anytime.
Biggest part is the self review done by the employee. Manager and peers do reviews too but are smaller. If you get a lot of peer reviews it can be a big workload too
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I do not agree with Uber management, especially atg management, I have said countless times Eric is incompetent and should be fired. I'm not defending Uber in general just rectifying the truth about the lawsuit.
Now the technology wasn't ready and that's why the were a safety human driver paid to look at the road... I also blame Eric for taking many bad decision that made this crash possible.
That being said, I'm sure plenty of other companies have employees who get involved in a fatal accident while driving on duty. There is no difference here, the accident is not because the car did something expected but because the employee did not do his job.
You know nothing about the safety training for the safety driver, so STFU, watching a movie instead of watching the road is definitely not what we teach them, if we were talking about some accident because the safety driver failed to react properly you would have a point. But here we talk about a safety driver who decided to watch movie rather than doing her job
"What are the potential problems?" "We run out of money"
How the hell did you translate that as "uber is out of cash"??? YOU WROTE THE QUESTION
Now, it is not evil just because it is introducing self-driving cars. By that logic, Amazon should be the most evil company. Its warehouse must have many robots, they are thinking about drone delivery, they are introducing automated checkout etc.
Second example is more recent, when the bonuses were announced. Team members openly shared what they got and started arguing with each other about not deserving it.
More regular examples include people actively undermining other teams/functions and often referring to others in dismissive and negative terms.
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