Will you join DoorDash today? Specially after Uber+GH news?
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
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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.
Lmao. They are laying off rn.