Uber replacing fired workers by hiring in India

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applemon

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Aug 5, 2020 86 Comments

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.

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TOP 86 Comments
  • Uber is a shitty place to work anyway. Quality always sucks there.

    (ex-employee here, wasn't fired)
    Aug 5, 2020 21
    • Adobe
      ObrT21

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      ObrT21
      Lucid sounds like a corporate simp

      One can want the TC of Uber, not know the about the internal shitshow it is, and then not rush out the door the minute they find out
      Aug 12, 2020
    • Damn!
      People having sensible discussions while maintaining respect for the other is not what BLIND is about!
      Where's the trash talk guys

      /s
      Aug 14, 2020
  • 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.
    Aug 5, 2020 11
  • Uber
    Uberer

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    Uberer
    "India quality low" πŸ˜‚. 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).
    Aug 6, 2020 2
    • Uber
      J.Lo

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      PRE
      Google, Facebook, Apple
      J.Lo
      ^^^ all of this ^^^

      πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»
      Aug 7, 2020
    • eBay
      SteirlitzM

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      SteirlitzM
      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 you’re paid 100k in India, which more and more top companies are paying... how much should your TC in US be in proportion?
      Aug 12, 2020
  • Apple
    ceoOfBlind

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    ceoOfBlind
    Thanks to US immigration policies, more work will move to foreign countries
    Aug 5, 2020 0
  • They laid off people in India as well. I think it's brutal cost cutting. Not denying your hypothesis though.
    Aug 6, 2020 1
    • Uber
      netla

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      netla
      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.
      Aug 6, 2020