Choose your team and org carefully - Senior Software Engineer Uber Employee Review

3.0
13 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing tech stack. Good challenges. Good product offering. Good tech infrastructure. Great energy and peers. Rapidly changing environment. Leadership is open to feedback and seems like they will act on it.

Cons

Lack of alignment in some orgs. Lots of re orgs. Not all Managers are fare. Favorites and friends benefit. Managers are not technical don't know enough about candidates and perf is in their hands as they represent you in calibration. Culture is more like deliveries over employees well being. You are expected to stretch indirectly through peer pressure. Highly competitive environment.

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Uber Response
9y
Thank you for the review and candid feedback. I like how you call out the product, tech, and openness of leadership. I think some of the cons you call out, like alignment & reorgs, are a sign of our rapid growth and will improve as we reach organizational scale, and in my experience have already improved dramatically over the last few months. If you'd ever like to connect offline to discuss ways we can improve Uber, feel free to reach out - pierce@uber.com. Thanks!

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Cons

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5.0
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Cons

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Uber Response
10y
Great review, thank you!
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