My previous EM went there and has reached out. I don't want to prep and go through the interview to not be excited. Per him: - business is looking really good. - Unit economics look good and company will IPO soon. - He snagged a solid offer (don't know the details) - they need my skillset to scale. My concerns: - lot of junior engineers early on = poor codebase, tooling and outages. - Total market is small compared to Uber as a whole. Though higher when compared just to Eats. GH acquisition might put Uber Eats ahead. Stock might be very overvalued. Don't want to repeat Uber all over again. - how will DD business perform once we recover from COVID in 1-2 years. - business not as diversified as FAANG. Uber leadership sucks and I am looking to move but can stick around for another 3-6 months if needed. So not in a hurry. Package here is good. TC: 430
Isn’t it illegal for him to approach you?
Why would it be illegal?
Most employers have non solicitation clauses
Mmm “IPO soon” is not in any way a commitment, verifiable, or up to him
They filed paperwork with SEC. And next one year is a great time for them to IPO and get more money in the bank.
The only reason why DD has a good market share is because they are cheaper. Not because of superior technology. If they try to become profitable, they will lose users. I would go there only if the cash component is attractive to you or if you think the career growth is better.
YOE?
I would recommend working here. I can’t say much because it’s confidential, but your ex manager and I probably have a better idea of our financials than random people on blind? You can google how DoorDash/GH/UE are doing in market share and even combined they’d be equal to us, but both have been declining and we continue to grow. Our code was pretty bad as a result of junior engineers early on but it’s been getting a lot better and by the end of this year I expect that early code to be completely gone. We were doing well pre-covid, I expect well lose a lot of gains but we’ll still keep some of it and be larger than we were before.
Where do you see DD in 5-7 years?
Same. Feel free to dm if you’d like to chat with an engineer here.
Just letting you know when I was going thru interviews last year, I interviewed at Zenefits for practice. I got the offer and the recruiter and HM guaranteed that by May 2020 they will go IPO for sure 100%. Lmao. They are laying off rn.
Uber is not too far from that story.
DD the company is fine, it's higher potential growth than more established companies but nothing is guaranteed. The bigger consideration is if you enjoy working for your manager.
DD market potential a lot bigger than Uber. You should chat with the VP Eng to get all we are building, a lot bigger than food delivery. DD still bigger than Uber+GH combined. It’ll be close but DD growing much faster than combined entity without discounting (superior product). Also good luck to Uber+GH merging two 3000+ people orgs, outdated tech, and declining market share.
Ok dude relax. Every VP NLPs himself while looking at the mirror every morning that he's leading the next biggest thing in Sillicon Valley. He needs to convince you grunts of this as well. Anyway, work hard and kill it until the kool-aid wears off.
What’s the delivery automation story @doirdash?
Confidential
For enough money, sure