Who wants to hire a recently laid off Uber employee?

Uber
puUK53

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puUK53
Jul 29, 2019 163 Comments

The rumors were true... Uber just laid off 500+ marketing employees this morning.

What tech companies have exceptional marketing departments? I want to start looking now.
LA/SF -based

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  • Uber
    puUK53

    Go to company page Uber

    puUK53
    OP
    Love how supportive the tech community is! I’ll be reaching out via DM.
    Jul 29, 2019 3
  • Zillow Group / Eng
    rockyPole

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    rockyPole
    What was the reason for the massive layoffs?
    Jul 29, 2019 6
    • Google / Eng
      iamhal

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      iamhal
      Maybe just follow the stock market for a few years
      Jul 29, 2019
    • Google / Eng
      backlogged

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      backlogged
      @rydia: I am lowly L4 at Google. I don't have T7-T9 vision.

      However, if you put yourself in driver's seat at Uber (pun intended) and think what reasons you would take your sales and slash them by 1/3, when your company just did IPO and was hoping to grow x times, there are very few things that I can come up with.

      This happened with various companies at various times - snap at some point went through this and they bounced back when they held a promise of UI refresh - when that promise tanked, stock took a beating.

      The sad as well as easy to predict part is, once they go IPO, a CEOs life revolves around next quarter earnings - basically dancing to WS tunes. I can see that blueprint. Again as I said my reasons are the 'usual' and obvious ones. There is definitely a non zero possibility that I don't have the bigger picture (read my first line in this comment).
      Jul 29, 2019
  • Uber / Mktg
    TzOF53

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    TzOF53
    Eyyyy I was part of it too. Including my entire team. Sucks.
    Jul 29, 2019 11
  • Oracle / R&D
    TLead

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    TLead
    Message me for Oracle referral.
    Jul 29, 2019 0
  • Google
    uxgui

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    uxgui
    Send me your LinkedIn or resume and I can provide you with a Google referral
    Jul 29, 2019 0