Really excited people, fast-paced environment. Uber is extremely good at leveraging resources and hasn't fallen into the pattern of creating comfortable/lazy engineers like many other companies do at this level of success.
Falls for the same fallacies that everyone else in Silicon Valley falls for, most notably confirmation bias.
Place more emphasis on mastery of craft. You cannot abstract or engineer away the need for engineers to become masters in their domain.
You don't want to work for this company. Uber has big organizational issues; they were unable to book any room for my interviews. I was interrupted three times to change rooms, and two interviews were done in common areas. I spent an hour and a half
One phone screen beforehand. After that, I was brought onsite. They reimbursed the Uber cost from/to the airport. They also booked the flight. The onsite process was smooth. The hotel is close to their headquarters in SF. The food is good too. Th
A recruiter at Uber had been persistent in communication with me, asking me to join for several months before I actually decided to interview with them. At the time, I was considering several options, weighing technology opportunities against industr
You don't want to work for this company. Uber has big organizational issues; they were unable to book any room for my interviews. I was interrupted three times to change rooms, and two interviews were done in common areas. I spent an hour and a half
One phone screen beforehand. After that, I was brought onsite. They reimbursed the Uber cost from/to the airport. They also booked the flight. The onsite process was smooth. The hotel is close to their headquarters in SF. The food is good too. Th
A recruiter at Uber had been persistent in communication with me, asking me to join for several months before I actually decided to interview with them. At the time, I was considering several options, weighing technology opportunities against industr