Google vs Uber

Oracle / Eng
vAPF84

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vAPF84
Jan 16, 2020 21 Comments

I got offers from Uber and Google and i know it should be a no brainer but I am still leaning towards team in Uber.
My manager at Uber was great the team is okayish but I had such a great vibe with my manager that I am thinking of choosing it over google. Am i being stupid.

Other factors
Google is in Sunnyvale, Uber is in SF so Uber is preferrable
My team at Google has a lot of PhDs who I could learn a lot from but also wonder if I can make an impact when L6 engineers who have PhD and have been at google for 12 years will give me a chance for an impact
I got the vibe that the L7 manager at Google was a bit intense and promo is 2-2.5 years to L4 during that time I could easily be promoted once and close to second promo at Uber.
Uber is paying me less tol but I think in the future it would be easier to transfer at Uber and create systems that have impact where as at Google all great systems have already been done.



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  • Uber
    yearOne

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    yearOne
    Lol stay at Google. You are welcome.
    Jan 16, 2020 4
    • Uber
      yearOne

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      yearOne
      Mr.dodge I am trying to help a budding engineer instead of brainwashing him to join a company full of rampant politics and substandard engineering systems.

      VAPF84 go to google and build solid fundamentals. If you do well you can make it to L4 in 18 months. You can make it to L4 at Uber in 12 months and then still get L3 offers everywhere else. We have really young managers who are great at selling but are terrible managers who get insecure if you start doing too well. Plus you rarely build anything that’s not an MVP so there isn’t much engineering depth. PMs control every single product feature so you pretty much have no say in what gets built. On top of that we are guinea pigs who our hr head uses to experiment different appraisal methods that she comes up with every 6 months.
      The positives are just speed (which help PMs and EMs but overworks ICs) and a hope of our stock quadrupling (but you will need a lot of shroom-aid to buy that story).
      Jan 16, 2020
    • Uber
      andjr

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      andjr
      That may be true on this engineer’s team, but it’s not true of every team. I have an excellent manager, loads of interesting and challenging technical problems and high compensation. Very happy and plan to spend 4 years at least at Uber (like hundreds or thousands of engineers before me)
      Mar 7, 2020
  • Uber
    ddicnreno

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    ddicnreno
    Stay away from Uber. Thank me later.
    Jan 17, 2020 0
  • Uber
    hqqq7511

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    hqqq7511
    Worked in both, do not go to Uber, it’s not comparable with Google at all. You will not grow well
    Jan 16, 2020 0
  • Manager and team matter the most. Go with Uber dude.
    Jan 16, 2020 0
  • LinkedIn
    Chummha

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    Amazon
    Chummha
    G, don't use brain when its no brainer
    Jan 17, 2020 0