uber layoff 3500 employees on a 3 min zoom call

Intel
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May 11, 2020 160 Comments

Tough place to work at a fang company. They lay you off quick like you are nothing to them. It is so obvious those tears are fake. It is better to work at a well established company like intel instead of these unicorn companies such as uber, lyft, airbnb, pinterest. It’s not good always chasing after those high TCs.

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  • OP seems to be jealous of FAANG by characterizing them based on one company that was heavily impacted by covid19. Conformation based to justify low lc at Intel?
    May 11, 2020 34
    • Amazon
      fWiX20

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      fWiX20
      Because that's the market value of a software engineer's labor? I'm so confused, should we pay people a certain salary just because it makes us feel good? If that's the case then what should we pay you?

      Funny how you make a 1% salary (probably 0.1% given your COL) and live in basically a mansion relative to your neighborhood yet manage to be upset at other people making massive amounts of money. Try some self reflection, you are just as spoiled by the whims of the market economy and supply/demand pricing of labor

      None of us probaly have ever worked as hard as your average med student, poor parent working 3 jobs, etc. yet we are all reaping the gains, you included. You just haven't "won" as much as some others making 500k did, and you're upset.
      May 14, 2020
    • Uber / Eng
      DK2020

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      DK2020
      I low key think intel is trolling. If not, he needs to see a therapist stat bc this much insecurity is not healthy.
      May 14, 2020
  • Airbnb / Other
    b🧜🏻‍♀️

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    b🧜🏻‍♀️
    I thought the Airbnb lay-off was done very well. Brian Chesky wrote us so many notes, did a Q&A, and will do another. Founders personally replied to people’s public goodbye notes and we were allowed a full week to say goodbye. Our laptops were supposed to be shut off at 8pm but we’re all still on slack having fun at 9:15pm!

    I took a pay cut to be here so it wasn’t about TC for me. ❤️❤️❤️
    May 11, 2020 11
    • Airbnb contingent workers had a completely different experience. We received news that layoffs were to occur for a “majority” of contingent workers on the CEO Q&A, then had to wait 5 days to receive confirmation and more information.

      Also despite stating that contingent workers would get an “additional 2 weeks pay,” they failed to mention that one of those weeks was worked. Health benefits were also cut on our last day, but we did get to keep our computers (and let’s face it, there was less risk in giving the computers away than to have them sitting unprocessed in a warehouse somewhere).

      I realize that contingent workers have always been treated differently, but it’s frustrating to constantly read about how “human centered” and thoughtful the layoffs were handled.

      Congrats on your 14+ weeks of severance - I’m still waiting for my unemployment claim to be processed.
      May 14, 2020
    • Airbnb / Other
      b🧜🏻‍♀️

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      b🧜🏻‍♀️
      That really sucks. :(

      Unfortunately, they are legalities around what can or can’t happen based on contracts they have with vendors since they’re not Airbnb employees. I know because I’ve both been one (joined Airbnb as one), and had some report to me before. So many stupid rules about what you can or cannot say, who can deliver what message, or what you can give or not. Benefits/pay is all part or overhead they pay for you, usually 15-20%, but again up to the vendor on what they choose to offer. Similarly, Slack etc can only be company communications. It sucks but you legally cannot do so many things; I think ultimately the best thing a company can do is hire more full time.

      I think laptops would have been fine - you can have them sit in packaging for a short time and then clear, similar to our badges they had us return.
      May 14, 2020
  • I have not given $1 to this sleazy company. Lyft all the way.

    I'll miss the Uber master-race bros flaunting their paper TC on Blind
    May 11, 2020 22
  • Airbnb
    Yahad

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    Yahad
    Will still take uber over intel anytime
    May 11, 2020 9
    • Uber
      Synistre

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      Synistre
      I am obviously biased, but love Uber and Lyft. I go out with friends all the time now and can have someone sober drive me home. With cabs the expense was just enough to justify driving
      May 13, 2020
    • VMware
      BWPf83

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      BWPf83
      "At Uber you get to take a stab at changing the world"
      - you don't change the world, the owner of the company does.
      - you won't say this when you are laid-off later
      - people usually hypnotize themselves after they made a choice that cannot be easily change.
      May 14, 2020
  • Google
    vWlu85

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    vWlu85
    None of the places you mentioned are a fang company though
    May 11, 2020 1