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- Prop 22 ruled unconstitutional RIP Lyft and Uber This means they will likely exit California entirely since they can’t possibly support drivers as employees. Other states will follow. Likely to get appealed and drag out I suppose. I mean you may have good intentions fighting for drivers but the end result is… there won’t be any drivers at all b
- Uber And Lyft Must Make Drivers Employees, California Court Rules What does it mean for the on-demand industry?
- Uber IPO - ex employee selling shares and lockout rules Hi all, I'm aware that most RSUs have lockout agreements (uber certainly does), which restrict sales for 180 days. That said, I've noticed in solium that I have two types of shares. 1- RSUs: from refresher grants after the company converted equity grants from options to RSUs 2- common shares: from
- link Uber, Lyft: how do you feel about Seattle's min wage rule? https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-adopts-minimum-wage-uber-lyft-drivers
- link Travis's Sex Rules Email Discuss! https://www.recode.net/2017/6/8/15765514/2013-miami-letter-uber-ceo-kalanick-employees-sex-rules-company-celebration
- link Thoughts? https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/27/india-sets-rules-for-commissions-surge-pricing-for-uber-and-ola/ #uber #tech
- How does equity refresher work in Uber? What's with the cut-off date? Can someone please explain the rules. Uber Offered TC : 60 LPA YOE - 4 LEVEL - L4 #engineering #software #swe #uber #rsu
- link i should’ve read this before i brought Slack... and promptly loss more than 40% of my money in the last 3 months Introducing the Rule of 40 (And Why Investors Should Avoid Slack, Uber, and Jumia) https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/09/25/introducing-the-rule-of-40-and-why-investors-shoul.aspx
- link Waymo vs Uber going to trial https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/waymos-lawsuit-against-uber-is-going-to-trial-judge-rules/ What does this mean exactly? Could the court proceedings be televised? How long could this court case last? Can uber go public during this time?
- link offer from uber I have an offer from uber for software engineer position.I heard this news Uber's UK drivers to get paid vacation, pensions following Supreme Court ruling https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/tech/uber-uk-vacation-pensions-drivers/index.html Is safe to join company now ?
- link Uber not a tech company, simply a transport service I've stated this before, Uber is largely a taxi service using a bunch of existing technologies and not some great tech company. The EU has now come to this conclusion too: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/eu-rules-that-uber-is-a-transport-service-not-a-digital-company.html
- link Uber is a transport provider!?!? In what is common sense to everyone except silicon valley hipsters, ECJ is likely to rule that Uber is a transport provider and not just a tech platform http://tcrn.ch/2q6fGGn
- How's Uber eats nyc? Have an interview in the next few weeks but I'm little bit concerned about the job security and wlb. Also Biden's gig worker rule might kill Uber. Current TC: 300k
- Life time cap in terms of number of interviews allowed? Like if you failed two on site interview opportunities, then you won't be allowed to try for any openings of same role in the future. Does anyone of the FAANG or PULPA company have such kind of rules? Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix Pinterest, Uber, Lyft, Postmates Airbnb, etc.
- What tech companies besides Coinbase is not woke? Kudos to coinbase who recently implemented a no politics rule at work. Sadly nobody else has the moral courage to follow. Do you know of other tech companies that are not woke and politically neutral AND pay at least Microsoft not Amazon TC? L63, $240k TC, 7 yoe. #tech #google #facebook #snap #ub
- vote H1B transfer Let’s say you found a new job and filed for H1B transfer to a well known tech giant in bay area. In the prevailing situation where government is toughening up the rules, would you still join the company on H1B filing receipt? Referring to companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn, Uber, Am
- One tip for the many leaving Uber Don't be blind sighted like me. Uber will do its best to take away your benefits so be prepared. If you have pretax contributions to navia for commuter and parking - please please load as many clipper cards and drain that account before you even give a hint you are leaving. Many companies give 90
- Mid level data Analyst looking for referrals and H1B I am a data analyst. A good one at it. I have been working with multiple domains in Uber. I am on L1 Visa. Would like to work with a good team which can apply for my H1B this year. I like working at Uber but they are not applying for H1B. Never thought which company I work would be based on the
- Why can’t you get paid for side projects on H1B? I understand it’s a specialty occupation and you get a visa for a specific set of skills. But why can’t you get paid for things on the side if they’re related to your specific set of skills that got you on the visa? I’m not intending to drive an Uber or wok as a busboy on the side. I actually have
- Offer in HQ, work remotely from another city? Received offers in SF HQ, 100% remote is allowed. Can I start my job there and then move to another city (e.g. Austin, TX) and work from there? How about out of country (e.g. Canada)? Theoretically I can get SF pay and living in a lower COL place. How would the company know and do I have to tell th
- Internship offers: Dropbox vs F/G, Msft, Bloomberg, Uber, Airbnb For context I interned at F/G last summer and have a return intern offer. Have offers from all above companies except Airbnb (waiting to hear back). I'm personally ruling out Msft, bloomberg, and Uber (didn't seem to vibe with Uber during interviews). My main question is how is Dropbox these days?
- link What happens when government sets the price This post isn’t about Lyft vs Uber. Lyft has been kicking our asses over the last 2 years. The article below though is a reminder that when governments interfere with pricing set by a competitive marketplace, there are negative consequences. Drivers demanded higher pay, now they are being locked o
- Playing a game during travels? For low-risk flights with alternatives, I've found myself playing a game. I try to push how late I can leave to still make it on time. Rules of the game 1. Have to Uber or Lyft to the airport (friends aren't allowed to drop you off) 2. No TSA PRE or faster security check 3. Clock the latest time
- YOE Needed to be hired as L4 at most companies? Lets say you have a job at a respectable company, Microsoft in my case. How many YOE of experience would one need to reliably be hired as L4 at FB/Google. What about top tier startups like Uber/lyft/dropbox/square etc? I understand the answer will vary greatly based on your type of experience and
- vote Booking.com Amsterdam offer or continue interviewing Booking.com Amsterdam offer (Senior Developer in Fintech): - relocation - ~6k relocation bonus - 110k base - up to 20% annual bonus - RSU? (No information atm) - 30% ruling Also, I can schedule interviews with Uber Amsterdam, Microsoft Dublin, Amazon Dublin, Meta London, Google Zurich, and some oth
- Help me pick I'm interviewing this month and next and seemed to oversubscribe myself. I'm looking for caliber upgrade and $. WLB is non factor. Help me rule out companies. Doing: g, fb, u, amz, lnkd, lyft, snap Unsure about doing: stripe, dbox, zillow, apple, sift, voleon, citadel, two sigma Need help on the
- vote Uber vs Coinbase vs Tiktok vs G (updated) Recently got offer for Uber/coinbase/tiktok, thinking about joining, need some advise on which company/team to choose (detailed reasons are much appreciated!): Uber: 2 potentials teams, frontloaded over 4 year, first year tc 550k, per hr the goal is to keep following years tc >= first year’s. T
- Can you help me sorting the best companies to apply to? I am trying to rank companies where I want to apply. My target is to maximize first (TC, WLB) and then (reputation, growth opportunity). So far I have: - established and safe, good WLB/TC: google, netflix, dropbox, twitter - healthy pre-ipo: stripe, databricks - healthy post-ipo: twilio, square - hi
- FAANG application criteria I was recently applying to Amazon, and in the application form, there's a field under "Work eligibility" section which says "Have you previously applied to Amazon"? It also asks you to mention the date of application. I wanted to understand if "applied" here means simply applying for a position at
- Looking out for referrals and jobs in Advance Hi I am looking out for jobs before hand of Lay off Because my Org Uber has decided to lay off in the coming week in which the layoff is completely focussed on Indian Locale ( These are the speculations going on since a week ) So I have 20 months of Experience in customer service , Project manageme
- India to Europe and coming back Nowadays I see a lot of people in my friend circle moving to UK, EU for MS to get a job there. Main reason they're going is for better QOL. I'm also thinking of going to Netherlands ( because of the 30% ruling) stay for a few years and coming back to India. Main reason I want to go is to travel and
- Uber pool ride experience I took an Uber Pool for the first time to go to SFO airport from Cupertino around 5pm. Due to the evening rush hour the surcharge was making it too expensive to take a solo ride. So I margined for an extra hour for my shared ride. The driver kept picking up passengers on the way and used up more tha
- I think Uber has blacklisted me In 2014-16, I was interviewed thrice for Uber Operations manager role. In the first 2 attempts,I went through 2-4 phone rounds. Now Uber has a rule that you have to wait 6 months before interviewing again. On my third attempt, I was told by the recruiter that I scored the highest possible score on
- How does uber attract talent with their comp? So I interviewed at few companies for a Sr SDE position (most big names). I received offers from -some- the total comp was between 330 to 410. Except uber! And this is where I don't get it. I could clearly identify why they needed me (current peers that interviewed me were really new into softwar
- link "A-level" engineers? I was re-reading Steve Newcomb's "famous" essay ... https://medium.com/cult-creation/cult-creation-a44303564f21 This part always stuck with me: """ Super A = Uber-connected leaders are super A’s. Get one of those and 10 A-level people will join. a=a. A-level people that aren’t super-connected will
- vote Uber PA vs. Apple DS vs. FB DE Trying to evaluate two offers (FB, Apple) vs. staying at Uber. There's no clear best decision in my mind so curious for the community's thoughts. Caveat: I feel tremendously thankful to have any options at all given the current economy. I find myself in the fortunate position of evaluating multiple
- link Booking.com rating on Blind so low - why?? Booking.com is rated as 3.1 when I was thinking it to be one of the best companies to join from Product perspective. In fact, I would rate it as just one rung below faang/uber/lyft and in the similar range as Spotify/Deliveroo. Some of the blogs that they have written around how they go about buil
- vote Startup that depends on web scraping? I have an idea for a startup that I believe would have a net positive impact on society, in particular, for a vulnerable group of individuals. However, enabling this would require scraping large amounts of metadata from a large social media company. Nowadays, there are many high-quality scraping se
- link Competition: A new acronym to keep your SWE career on track It's long past time for us to move past the outdated FAANG acronym as there are literally dozens of companies consistently paying $300k+ in liquid comp to newly hired software engineers with 5 years of experience or less. We need a new acronym that captures all of them. Post your new acronym below!
- vote Compare FAANGMULA to the Ivy League YOE: 12 TC: 780k Is a joke? Yes Now that we have the important stuff out of the way, onto the fun because it's performance/holiday season and I'm procrastinating. Facebook - Harvard. Fitting that Zucc went here. Everybody still wants to go here, it has the name brand, prestige, and controversy. An
- Blind sentiment about issues at FAANG Spending about 2 weeks on blind for the first time, this is what I've gathered from most posts about the common issues in Faang companies. Would like to get a more clearer picture about how the market is right now FACEBOOK - Perm processing held up due to lawsuits AMAZON - Pip culture and terribl
- Ultimate Thread of European Places to be in as SWE There isn’t much discussion on European-based jobs instead US-based ones, so I decided to make a thread which will constantly be updated for future references. Please comment with your comments and I’ll add them to the post. Let’s compare different countries and cities in Europe, and compare all of
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- Ghosting/rejects after H-1B changes I know my timing was unfortunate, but recently I decided to pursue other opportunities outside of Microsoft more aligned with my interests. Things were going super well and I was getting quite a few follow ups until the new rules became effective earlier this month. Most recruiters from smaller com
- The Quest for Uber Engineering "What the fuck are you doing? Why the fuck isn't it working" Travis yelled as he loomed over the engineer responsible for dispatch. It was late 2012 and Uber was experiencing one of its normal outages. Buckling from the weight of tremendous growth, Uber's software infrastructure was consistently giv
- Lost job and now idk what to do... So, i little bit of my experience, when i was in brazil ( home country) i was a 3d artist and video editor, then i moved to US and got a job at youtube content review ( contract), then google play music data analyst(contract), facebook dev ops (contract), Baidu autonomous vehicle operator (contract)
- link Machine learning engineering and ML systems design resources master list Hi Fellow Blinders, I'm trying to make an ultimate thread of recommended ML/ML engineering resources. Contributions much appreciated. I'll add them to the OP. Looking for anything, from resources for learning machine learning theory to deep learning to the latest trends in ML engineering and system
- link Companies I will never interview again (Europe Edition) I had some great experiences last couple of months as well as shit ones while interviewing at different companies across Europe. Trying to payback to the community by sharing which companies not to waste your time on: 1- wayfair Berlin Pros: wayfair recruiter was friendly when first contacted me to
- link My Approach to System Design It is not an exhaustive list and might not work for everyone. Also it is not a one size fits all thing but I hope it helps you to draft a plan and figure out how to tackle the sys design. Resources: 1. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 2. https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-s
- link SDE guide to getting the best offer - part1 This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ___________ I left Microsoft some time ago. I switched job several