What's the best place to start career? Google or Uber? Focus is on engineering growth as a person. Hope to have a startup someday. Please comment why as well
Uber and Google both are very well known for their engineering teams. Tbh both of them would be a dream company for me, but i know as a seasoned developer youd probably get more interesting teams in Uber. Thats not to say that Google is a miserable-bum-hole, but i feel Googles engineering teams are much more streamlined and mature than Ubers. Youd certainly learn a lot , in a very efficient manner at Google, but something about the problem of self-driving challenges faced by Uber is more interesting to me than any Google Product. TLDR: both are good. Choose based on Team.
Depends on the team and the manager. Know people in both. Great people and stuff but I wouldn't want to work with some of them. Talk to both and see which one matches you better. Ask how they support growth and what their management philosophy is. In my experience you would want to be surrounded by people who function as a team.
Agree with Qualcomm, choose based on team where there’s interest and more impact. As a new grad you want to learn as much as possible (you mentioned growth), and Uber has more teams that cater to such learning. Like Qualcomm mentioned, it’s not to say you won’t learn at Google - you definitely will. But things aren’t as established yet at Uber like infrastructure and tools, and you can use these less mature areas of Uber as growing opportunities. Both are viewed as prestigious software companies, so you shouldn’t have a problem getting interviews if you decide to move on. One thing to keep note of is that Google is obviously a bit more stable and less prone to layoffs in a recession, and with talks of one coming soon, you might want to take that into consideration
Uber is smaller, however their tech stack is cool and it's used by whole company. Google also has cool tech stacks, but what are the chances to get into team using trash in Google since Google project different from wow to total shit
I mean I wouldn't say total shit but some are definitely more fun than others
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