How’s life at Uber currently? Are people feeling motivated for the next 6 months to a year? Is leadership doing the right things? Are people looking to abandon ship or commit?
Is there a feeling of the “worst” is behind us? Or are people still fearful of the future of the company? Are the legends of terrible culture mostly a myth?
For non Uber folks, say you had an offer in hand at Uber for a SWE with a TC bump, would you consider it? Or is it a wild idea?
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How’s life at Uber currently? Horrible
motivated? Hell no
leadership doing the right things? No
people looking to abandon ship? Half my team voluntarily left right after layoffs
Is there a feeling of the “worst” is behind us? Hell no
Are the legends of terrible culture mostly a myth? Our culture was toxic before 2017, perfect in 2018, then went to shit in 2019 since there are layoffs every half now. Most ppl say it's worse than 2017.
Layoffs suck, there's no sugarcoating that, even more so for people who are impacted that are on visas. From a certain point of view, it may be worse for those that get to stay because they have to pick up the pieces, keep trying to move forward with the ever present thing in your mind of "will this happen again and when?". At least for those who are let go, they don't have to worry about that since their future with the company is quite concrete.
Restructures and layoffs will happen wherever you go, its almost inescapable if you plan on being at a big company. If you do happen to be laid off, its a horrible feeling initially but if you're an engineer, its not like you don't have options. Even in times of economic uncertainty, you still have a skillset that is widely sought after. Compared to a lot of other occupations, I feel as though we are quite lucky in that regard.
I can only go from my own experience, but I'm currently enjoying what I do. I guess I'm fortunate that I'm on a team where I get to drive multiple projects, get to work with really good people on the daily and I feel that my output allows me to influence and provide guidance on projects from other teams and domains.
For me, I have a mental checklist of what keeps me motivated and happy to continue working at Uber, so far most of the boxes are still checked so I don't feel like I need to leave. I'm sure there will come a day when that will change, but we're not there yet.
Not everything is positive however. I have some reservations about the direction that leadership wants to take the company. I feel that the decisions they make over the next few months will greatly impact the future of the company. These things are largely out of my control so I tend to just concentrate on the things that I can control and make an impact through there.
As another post here made reference to, the recent layoffs were partially COVID related and partially something that they've probably wanted to do for a while. If you think about it, you can't consistently lose THAT much money and not make any major changes. I'm somewhat confident that the "worst" is behind us, but there's still a bit to go before things are good or great.
Culture-wise, perhaps its the people that I work with, but I'd say 99% of my interactions have been positive. There's been a few of instances where I've had to deal with abrasive or confrontational people, but you get that anywhere you go anyway. I had some reservations about the culture before I joined since you hear and read things, I suspect there is an element of truth behind it, but so far I haven't encountered it.
At the end of the day, there's always going to be an element of risk wherever you go.
Should you choose to join Uber, you may find that your experience is different, or it could be exactly what people here have commented about. Either way, you are in control of your own destiny, if you join and you don't like it, you will always have the choice to leave, its not like any of us are forced to be there.
Considering they had to do a drastic move only 2 months into the pandemic, imagine what they will do if the pandemic continues to kill their business 6 months in?