Heard Uber is hiring aggresively in India. This comes a couple of months after heavy layoffs in America. People kept saying I was fear mongering when I said all the jobs will go to India due to remote work now. > tImE Z0n3 IsSuEs > InDiA quAliTy lOw Uber is best example of that.
Sounds like youβre still fear mongering. Or did you forget to cite sources?
Clearly you haven't read The Information π
So cite it, otherwise get out
Does this mean they'll also hire more new grads in India this year??
hired here recently, not as a new grad, but the amount of new grads is same as last year.
Congratulations!! Placement Season (Dec 2020) of top colleges has not yet started. Hopefully they hire more
They also sent out an email to recently laid off SWEs offering them a chance to be rehired (with locality adjusted pay cut) if they moved to India/Brazil to "play a critical role in establishing Uber's innovation culture" in the new offices.
Are you serious??
Yup. Friend sent me screenshots.
Thanks to US immigration policies, more work will move to foreign countries
They laid off people in India as well. I think it's brutal cost cutting. Not denying your hypothesis though.
Technically true. In reality, they laid off less than 1.5% of engineering there. Meaning they fired the people who would have been let go anyway. For non-engineering, this number was far bigger. For reference: the US sites were hot by 15-25% engineering layoffs.
Thereβs also a H1B freeze get your facts straight
They're not hiring h1b anymore?
I moved out of Uber. I wish I was laid off. Would have gotten a free laptop phone and some cash.
How much cash?
What's the free laptop from? Just not returning your provided laptop? Lol
This not new. Dara announced in all hands in 2018 that they will grow the office over there as the cost of a good engineer is way lower than in the bay. This is probably the only way Uber can stay competitive. On my side I was lay off in 2019
"India quality low" π. Dude, half of the folks working in Apple US are Indians. Plus, Indians that come to US for "further studies" that end up working for companies here aren't even that smart coz most of the smart people (ones from IITs) are paid pretty heavily after undergrad in India itself (compared to living/other costs there).
^^^ all of this ^^^ ππ»ππ»ππ»
India has so intense competition that a 25 year old who is with a top company in India will chew the OP up and shit him out while he naively keeps believing that he is something important. Any Indian here who thinks the OP can compete for a top job in India? Also OP, if youβre paid 100k in India, which more and more top companies are paying... how much should your TC in US be in proportion?
Uber is a shitty place to work anyway. Quality always sucks there. (ex-employee here, wasn't fired)
Agree (current employee here)
People say that Uber is not a great place to work but still keep working there. What's keeping you from leaving? Uber pays you a pretty penny and you don't want to give that up so what's the point of berating the organization? If you don't like it, leave. Otherwise be appreciative of the opportunity.