Uber

The biggest pro is definitely the people. My coworkers were extremely smart and talented engineers. Notably, everyone was very passionate about the mission. I felt a lot of camaraderie.

Really exciting and dynamic place to work. The huge amount of growth leads to a lot of hard and exciting problems. Almost every week and weekend was record-breaking in some way.

Everyone worked hard to make sure I had a great internship. People were flexible. I was ultimately even able to open source part of my project!

Very transparent. Everyone knows how the business is doing. Every new service proposal is emailed out to all engineers. The weekly all-hands meeting is so interesting.

Fantastic engineering culture. People are enthusiastic about learning from each other. Engineers share what they are working through in weekly tech talks. I even got to give a talk as an intern. Also, we are expected to write great code, so code reviews are a key part of the development process.

Unique/multi-disciplinary tech company. Obviously, the engineering problems are vast, but there are so many other challenges the company faces too (political, media, business). I got to hear people in all sorts of departments discuss what problems they were working on.

• Somewhat disorganized, especially for interns. I wasn't presented a project when I arrived because the team was busy launching something. • So-so "intern program." This was the first summer that Uber had a formal internship program. They planned a few great events, but some weren't so good. They also didn't have any events until I was almost halfway through my internship. • Poor work/life balance. People work their butts off. I stayed at the office until 10pm a few nights, and I definitely wasn't the only one there.