The new in coming CTO for Uber was a VP at Amazon. He micro managed Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems. He was supported by his close aides from Microsoft. He lacked innovation, humility and tolerance. Most probably was managed out. I worked in his organization for 3 years. #uber #amazon
Uber is doomed.
> lacked, humility, innovation, and tolerance what an overly vague statement. Care to give some actual examples?
He couldn't understand a design component for a project which was running for 2 years which he overtook. (Innovation) He would not listen, and care about, to L7 Manager and two L6 Engineer explaining what the system intends to do. (Humility) He then pushed to make the system real time while the system only solves batch processing use case and not suited for real time as it was not possible (Tolerance).
@jahvsh Funny story, I interviewed at uber and i was explaining my project around real time systems to a senior engineer and he argued why we should have built it as a batch processing system. I was stunned by that person’s skills. May be sukumar is a good fit for them 😆
How big is his org? 2000 ppl? If so, that’s a lot of design reviews to sit in.
~1000
My roommate is Eng at Uber and said everyone thinks Sukumar is stupid and arrogant (“sexist bumbling idiot” were his words) and that he’s on his way out.
Yay! We got rid of him today. What a s**t show it was for the last 11 months.
Hahah
Well people, I told you so :)
Look at stock price after he was kicked out ;)
Lol! This did not age well. Good luck AMZN. So glad we were able to get rid of trash this quick. https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-cto-sukumar-rathnam-joins-amazon-return-vp-2021-11
ughhhhh this is spreading like wildfire across Amazon today. we already have an attrition problem and he won’t help
Ask him to replicate project “Optimus” to ensure quick quality hiring in Amazon to combat attrition 😂 That was one of his most useless pet projects that spectacularly failed at Uber. So much time and energy across all tech teams was wasted.
Fuck.
Oh there will be plenty of that. Imagine him sitting in design reviews.