A recruiter emailed me about opportunities with the marketplace team at Uber. Can the Uber folks please talk about how the team is and what they do?
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Marketplace is what used to be called "realtime" and also a handful of other teams they smashed together under a sexist douchebag of a director. Was under them for a year, around 100 engineers at the time I left, half Asian 40% white, 3 women. Folks outside of Mp - especially the teams that are directly downstream of them (core services, infra, money ) - look down on the org as a whole pretty heavily as a bunch of Bros.
That being said, they are wildly successful in their endeavors and have the backing of an SRE org that is primarily invested in marketplace and their "tier 0" services. They work their asses off for it, mostly at the behest of the org's management, and a set of incredibly aggressive OKRs. Went from a shitty mess of a nodejs monolith that would fall over every Friday or every deploy, to a normal mass of nodejs and Golang microservices that have easily scaled past what the old system would ever hope for and a lot of innovative sidecar tech like the trip replication stuff that some engs talked about at @scale.
I found my time on the team to be incredibly exhausting and disheartening, but my judgment looking back is clouded by close interaction with overbearing management and weird inter-org politics waging during the time I was on that team. Were I to start over, I'd have steered myself in to another recruiting pipeline such as Data Eng or Storage, but my value proposition is quite different than others here on Blind, it would seem.