A director of design emailed me asking if I was interested in a role on her team. Does this mean the interview process will be easier? Am i already in? Would love to hear from anyone that has had this situation happen to them. Also would love to hear any insights on Uber Eats.
As negative as the world is towards Uber, even its own internal blind, I love working here. Sure it’s a rough time right now, my TC also got affected due to the stock drop, but I’m in it for the long term, so I don’t let it affect me. Many opportunities to effect the bottom line. Doesn’t hurt to interview and find out more. I work in uber eats.
I get emails asking if I'm interested in FB, Google, whatever. It just means you have their attention and don't have to cold apply. I'd expect the rest of the process to be unmodified.
Nah. I’ve been at companies where the Director of Product / Design referred someone. We still went through the process to interview them and we can say no if we wanted. This was a proper referral not even found randomly online. We had to really explain why it it was a “no” though. The only time I’ve ever skipped interviewing is a tiny startup and the CEO was asking me to join. However that’s also not guaranteed. This CEO wanted to hire a particular engineer that I knew. I took him aside and told him why I did not think that would be a good hire and why.
The stock price will pick up - it's just a matter of time.
Doubt Uber is going up, the market is playing lock down defense on tech ipo that dont generate a profit. Wework woke the market up to that in a serious way, no profit no market gains
I think Market is just woozy, Uber is growing and will continue to grow. I definitely see profitability but it’s a zero sum game and Lyft is definitely losing its ground. Same will happen to DD once their VC $ dries up, they’ll suffer as well. It will all be good in upcoming quarters (definitely depends on how Trump handles trade deal of course)
It means they will overlook minor flaws but not major problems in interview. But you can steer interview to your advantage if played right.
Honestly, I don’t think it will be any easier just because of that. Loops are what they are, a sorry bunch of folks who drew the short straw for that day. Managers and directors will spend some of their time recruiting, which sometimes means reaching out to folks directly to try to appear genuine. That said, they don’t just randomly spam folks. They see something in your profile that makes them believe you’ve got it, so assuming you didn’t oversell yourself too much or just blatantly lie in your profile, it means you already have what they want.
You're not in you still have to interview through the process. You may have a slight edge in that maybe they already like your background so they will be less probing. But that's probably it. It's possible the director won't even be in the interview loop.
Probably just a recruiter/assistant using their email.
That’s what I thought too.. isn’t that unethical though lol