Samsung vs Uber

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PpVI87

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Jun 13, 2018 47 Comments

I recently received an offer from Samsung. I also received an offer from Uber’s pricing team. And I am currently deciding which offer is better for career development.

For sure Uber is a bigger name, but as a software engineer, will I get a chance to design machine learning model? Or the designing part is mostly done by data scientist? For the Samsung team, I know I will have a chance to design a deep learning model from scratch. That’s what makes Samsung’s position a bit more interesting. And also Samsung is more likely to pay higher.

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  • Samsung
    warrior 32

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    warrior 32
    No to Samsung.. culture is shitty.. also I don't think they have great projects to work on
    Jun 13, 2018 6
  • Samsung
    freesam

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    freesam
    Actually, I work here. But I don’t get why many people says working here is bad because of the culture. Let’s give examples. For staff engineer, the base is around $200,000 with about 15% cash bonus . And almost every time you can get 100%~150% of the promised bonus. Also for perks, they have the best cafeteria in the Bay Area. Only one free lunch, for extra food you have to pay $3 each. But the quality of the food is the best which make the paying for food thing okay for me. Not every company serves premium sushi (including oysters and sea urchin) very day. They also have gridded New York steak for you and Korean food... and the morning breakfast closes at 10:00 am, dinner opens at 6:00 pm. Nobody work extra hours. The building is dark after 7. No one is there.... I didn’t get it why the work life balance is bad...
    Nov 19, 2018 14
  • New
    SSmart

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    SSmart
    Don't come to Samsung, culture sucks and mgmt doesn't know software.... All major decisions are made in Korea with a very short term view ...
    Jun 13, 2018 2
    • Google
      PpVI87

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      PpVI87
      OP
      The product I am working on focuses on US customers. Do you think that we will still be constrained by Korean HQ?
      Jun 13, 2018
    • New
      SSmart

      New

      SSmart
      I was made similar promises when I joined Samsung ... But every significant decision comes out of HQ ... There are a bunch of smart engineers in US and it's great to work with them but mgmt is toxic ...
      Jun 13, 2018
  • Samsung culture is not that great. Uber got new CEO and is changing things and taking company in the right direction.
    Jun 13, 2018 0
  • Uber
    Holalo

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    Holalo
    Uber officially reached new low on blind.
    Jun 13, 2018 3
    • Google
      PpVI87

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      PpVI87
      OP
      Sorry, but I heard that culture at Uber is bad also, a lot of politics. It’s just hard for me to imagine how worse culture at Samsung is. However there are so many people complain about culture of Samsung. hmmm
      Jun 13, 2018
    • Oath / Eng
      BGdp48

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      BGdp48
      Yes , what I thought was Uber - good , samsung - okay , but seeing all these comments from samsung employees I would say stay at Google, switch teams, switch locations or go to Uber
      Jun 13, 2018