I'll be interning there in Summer 2020. It's my only offer and I don't really want to interview anymore. The news around Uber is pretty bad and stock price isn't doing too well either, so I imagine employees are looking to jump ship. I'm worried that this would affect my internship experience.. Current Uber employees, how is the company doing on the inside?
This is the best you got, why don't you make the most of it (attitude)
FB nails it
It’s literally 3 months. Chill out.
You’re an intern. Take the role with Uber, which is respected, enjoy the ride and pat yourself on the back for landing a nice gig.
+1 to this... These kids don't know how good they have it in this economy
I don’t understand why Uber receives so much flak when Lyft is in the same business and has in fact lost a lot more value since its IPO than Uber. Why is Lyft regraded as a better company to work for? If people don’t believe in the success of ride-sharing then aren’t they both on the same boat? If anything Uber has a global scale and is doing a lot more (eats, self driving, freight etc.) than Lyft. Is it just the recent lay-offs or is there more to it?
Pure speculation: most of their global operations aren’t profitable. Maybe a few major cities like Paris, London, Mexico City are good, but I’m not sure about the rest. Food delivery is a competitive business and no one knows the future of freight. Lyft operates primarily in the US where there are probably more profitable regions. Because rideshare isn’t subsidizing other unprofitable businesses like food delivery and freight, it’s less risky and easier to price. Summary: larger scale means losing more money and therefore lots of risk. Again, pure speculation on my end. If anyone at Uber has more accurate info (which they probably do), I’d be interested to hear.
Well, people seem to cast aspersions on the concept of ride-sharing which would make both of them equally unattractive- that was my main comment.
Ride share as a business plan don’t have a high margin to begin with, it compete with taxi so the best you can do is have a slightly better margin than a taxi company.
No one wants to join them. Students are reneging on Uber intern offers in my university
Yes this. Uber comes frequently to career fairs in my university. Normally companies who come to career fairs blacklist universities if their students engage in a lot of reneging behavior. But Uber has no choice but to suck university dick even though students have reneged their offers a lot. I have heard stories of Uber getting so desperate that they were hiring without a formal coding interview.
It's quite upsetting to see the low-tier candidates being interviewed these days. The best our recruiters can trawl and catch in their nets...