Folks - I'm reading reviews of the Uber "homework" assignment on Glassdoor and people are shitting all over it; it's a way to steal your ideas, expectations are unclear, people putting a full week of work into it, creativity vs. formality being valued. Anyone have any thoughts on what is really valued within Uber here?
Sure, ideas might be a dime a dozen. But well thought-out, developed ideas as professional homework? They're asking you to work for free and give up on one your most valuable assets (fresh perspective) before even getting in the door. Hah, I'd tell uber to go fuck themselves.
Heres an idea for them: stop the bad behavior ;)
Come up with a new way for them to NOT harass employees. Hired.
I don't get the issue. Last time I recruited (3 years ago) I had to do homework for several companies as part of recruitment. Is that no longer the norm? If I were hiring I'd love to see a candidate work through a problem given
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I went through this too and ask new hires to do the same. I think the way they do it at uber is weak--asking for the homework before the interview. It's better to put the candidate through a loop and position the "homework" as "you did great in the interview, now let's get a sample of how you'd approach the actual job".
lol @ "stealing ideas from homework assignments" some tips: - define the problem and the opportunity very crisply. set vision&mission. - explore the solution space and demonstrate that you can go deep with details. - what's 'success' for this product? what are the possible iterations? on what type of results? - explain how you prioritize it if you don't want to spare 4-5 hours on it, it's fine. plenty of other companies out there. however, believing that the assignment is for stealing your super duper ideas is lolzy and you are very likely not to get an offer anyway. so, chill.
what an attitude.
Nobody steals ideas from a 4 hr homework... you have got to be kidding me
They should make the homework related to a hypothetical company then, not uber itself. And the fact that you think no one could offer up a valuable idea (that they might not ever be compensated for) in a homework is absurd. I have a couple really good ideas for uber and I came up with them in only 4 minutes: 1) shit can your ass 2) shut down the company
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Every idea one has someone else already thought of
Totally agree. I should have said that I'm unconcerned about that. Any intel on what level of formality, completeness is expected in the homework?
The expectations should be made pretty clear in what was sent over, but if it's ambiguous you should reach out to your recruiter to get clarification. There's no reason that question should be poorly received.