Engineering Leadership title at Uber

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usernom

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usernom
Mar 24, 2017 28 Comments

Can we stop abusing 'Engineering Leadership' title please?
I am about puke when browsing LinkedIn.
Nobody is Engineering Manager anymore. Every fucking frontline manager is now an Engineering Leadership at Uber! Yeah, that bro with 4 years experience, somewhat managed to grab a manager position to nanny few new grads, yes, he is fucking 'engineering leadership' now!
Oh, yeah, the other dude, that one just triaging bugs all day, he is definitely 'engineering leaderhip'!

Every fucking body not writing a single line of code is Engineering Leadership at Uber, whatever that means, I don't get it. Is it like club you join after work hours? You sit with Thuan to discuss the engineering problems? He is clueless as well as you are clueless triaging bugs all day, where is the leadership?

Stop being funny! Differentiate yourself in a meaningful way! Not fancy titles at LI.

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  • Uber / Eng
    uberpnw

    Go to company page Uber Eng

    uberpnw
    Not sure why the hell you have to post in public lounge?
    Mar 24, 2017 5
    • Amazon
      T1

      Go to company page Amazon

      T1
      There are bunch of managers in Amazon, that keep referring to every manager & senior engineer as "Leader" in every email and meetings.

      I feel it is sarcastic and insulting, because the guy who calls all of us leader acts like "Supreme Leader" with zero respect to anyone below his level.
      Mar 24, 2017
    • Google / Eng
      levndowsky

      Go to company page Google Eng

      levndowsky
      Hail supreme leader!
      Mar 25, 2017
  • I agree with the spirit of your post, but I don't think it's limited to Uber (unless Uber somehow gives such titles or encourages people to use such titles on LI). I once had a first line manager, whose title in Linked In was "Head - xxx, @big MNC". We were literally 5 people reporting to him. And we were a fringe team in a remote office, while the main arm of that particular field (xxx) was all in a different office. So, technically he was the head of xxx in that particular office! It's like "Head janitor for the rest rooms numbered more than 2 and less than 4".
    Mar 25, 2017 6
    • Uber
      grownup

      Go to company page Uber

      grownup
      A FB recruiter called me up offering a set of Head Of roles to consider. She said many are going fast but they may have more as teams are created or grow.

      That really soured me on FB. I assumed this reflected on FB culture.
      Mar 25, 2017
    • I'm a nobody, so I can't tell you anything authoritatively about the company, but what I've seen (from a very low level vantage point, of course), the culture of entire building is much less in FB compared to many other places. I can't say it doesn't exist at all. But it's way less compared to any global company worth a few billion dollars.
      Mar 25, 2017
  • Uber
    grownup

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    grownup
    Almost anyone at Uber who is "Head of" is an immature, insecure, hyperpolitical dipshit. We could cull all of them and be a lot better off.

    There is a strong correlation to people hating their team and their manager titling themselves "Head of" on LinkedIn.

    They are totally classless and only able to thrive in a place like Uber.
    Mar 25, 2017 0
  • Uber
    Ace♠️

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    Ace♠️
    This is on point. I also see a lot of 'Head of <5 person project> Engineering!'
    Mar 25, 2017 1
  • Uber
    Hit68ftu

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    Hit68ftu
    We once had a data scientist claiming himself "head of data science at office X" even though he is the only data scientist here with no reports. We also had a "head of machine learning" who was just a second line manager building ML tools. He's gone right after work anniversary, trading up to an exec position somewhere else. His former report, a first line manager of same tool-building team is "head of deep learning".
    Mar 25, 2017 3