[uberemployee]

Anyone who is miserable has already left in 2017. Many long time employees are waiting for SoftBank deal to close before leaving which makes sense. They deserve to be enriched for their hard work. But they are only a couple of hundred employees at most. We have 15,000+ employees and 3,000 engineers.

I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG.

If the company doesn’t want to hire me because of where I work, I’m happy to not work for anyone who makes snap judgements based on resume line items. That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support. I’m happy never working for or alongside people like that.

[spaceflunky]

>I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG.

Given that your name is "uberemployee"... and that your comment history shows you are for lack of a better term an uber jingoist, I have to ask...

How do I know you're not some HR shill trying to do damage control?

/I say this half jokingly

[untog]

> That’s basically like excluding people because of the city they grew up in, the school they went to, or the football teams that they support.

Obviously it isn't. You don't choose the city you grow up in, and you have a limited choice over the school you go to. Football team is perhaps the closest in your list - if you support a team that has repeatedly cheated to win games then perhaps it's not unreasonable to judge a person based on their loyalty to that team.

To be clear, I'm not actually that convinced in the argument to not hire Uber employees based on their employment record. But we should at least represent the argument correctly.

[mercutio2]

You think bias against someone living in a particular city is comparable to bias against someone voluntarily working for a company with an unprecedented reputation for unethical behavior top to bottom stretching back years and years?

My cohort of friends, many of whom are hiring managers, won’t even patronize Uber, much less hire someone who voluntarily worked there without demonstrably showing signs of serious soul searching about the ethics of the company.

[ajiang]

Seriously? That sounds like quite an exaggeration. Do you believe, in earnest, that all 15,000 people that work at Uber are not worth hiring?

[pfarnsworth]

Unprecedented? I guess you weren't around during the dotcom days or you don't know much about Wall Street companies.

[walshemj]

Really I have heard reports of much worse about MCI.

[tootie]

3000 engineers seems like a ludicrous number for a taxi company. I'd expect the new CEO to start shrinking to focus on core business.

[adventured]

Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees.

3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.

[tootie]

Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.

[raiyu]

Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B.

Still nothing to scoff at.

[uberemployee]

The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.