What is happening in Uber ATG

New / Eng
uhYr23

New Eng

uhYr23
Nov 25, 2018 20 Comments

I know couple of people were interviewing there, and I heard Uber ATG and AI labs are going through makor re-orgs and are things are fuzzy and not good.

Con anyone provide any info, and if it makes sense to join them now.

Thanks.

TC 265, 2 yoe

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  • Uber
    Bag2Bag

    Go to company page Uber

    Bag2Bag
    For ATG I would avoid with the latest exodus. All the good people left and I heard Leadership is a complete shit show there. AI Labs is a bit more mature but still trying to find footing. Similar to Facebook AI org
    Nov 25, 2018 2
    • New / Eng
      uhYr23

      New Eng

      uhYr23
      OP
      Thanks for the heads up, just curious, do you know where good Uber ATG people went?
      Nov 25, 2018
    • Uber
      Bag2Bag

      Go to company page Uber

      Bag2Bag
      Bunch of Start ups like Ike, Kodiak, Argo, and Aurora. Also bunch went to Uber HQ.
      Nov 25, 2018
  • Can Uber keep the current valuation or get a higher valuation without ATG?
    Nov 26, 2018 6
    • New / Eng
      uhYr23

      New Eng

      uhYr23
      OP
      I think Dara's long term vision is to turn Uber to everything logistics company. Their survival and profitability cannot only depend on autonomous driving. Google is so much ahead of them in AV and they could easily write an app like Uber's for ride-hailing and eliminate Uber given how much they know about every user, and google map, and waze. I'm not saying Google will do that, there might be more profitable areas for them, but Uber cannot depend on ride-hailig and ride-sharing profit using AV. At least no sane CEO would do that.
      Nov 28, 2018
    • If google tried to take that approach it would prolly end up closer to a Google+ feature (although prolly better cuz of pricing), because google culture is not super conducive to sustaining huge mass consumer new lines of products. I think Uber gave 5% of the company to settle for Waymo, right? So if anything, my guess is that google might build a fleet and offer it as a platform for ride sharing companies (like GCP)

      Interesting. Yeah we see that with Uber Freight. I’m guessing maybe even soon you get scooter deliveries too? And maybe Uber Drone deliveries? Airline would be REALLY interesting. Now THATS one industry that could be huge, but that’s like betting AirBnB will gain significant share from hotel and real estate markets. I hope 🤞 both happens, but it feels like that’s really hard to do if Uber goes public (investors might be a lot more short term focused).

      How long do you think that will take, and do you think that’s a significant part of the IPO prospectus?
      Nov 28, 2018
  • Uber / Eng
    TraceRat

    Go to company page Uber Eng

    TraceRat
    Still tons of motivated people working on challenging projects. Larger pool of Blind whiners per capita tho.
    Nov 26, 2018 0
  • Uber
    oldoldguy

    Go to company page Uber

    oldoldguy
    ATG has lost the truck unit but the rest of the organization is much better than before. The people who went to HQ are mostly casual damaged cause by leadership movement.
    Nov 26, 2018 4
    • New / Eng
      uhYr23

      New Eng

      uhYr23
      OP
      There are public lists on how far companies are in the game based on certain measures like number of miles without human intervention. Uber is so behind that is not even in the least. Waymo has an order of magnitude lead compared to others, second is Cruise.
      Nov 26, 2018
    • Uber
      oldoldguy

      Go to company page Uber

      oldoldguy
      Those metrics are very up to whatever different company defines. You could come up with your own definition and release your numbers. You will be very surprised when you compare the numbers with the real fleet.
      Nov 26, 2018
  • Altera
    Felxn

    Altera

    Felxn
    TC and what role are you interviewing ?
    Nov 25, 2018 1
    • New / Eng
      uhYr23

      New Eng

      uhYr23
      OP
      TC updated, not sure about the role yet, I'm still researching them, not interviewing.
      Nov 25, 2018