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What you describe was definitely not a common occurrence. Engineering wasn’t toxic for many years until the last 9-12 months or so I would say. Pre-Susan Fowler memo, it was the be…

When I worked at Uber, this project was openly mocked. One of the CTO’s biggest failures was implementing a promotion scheme where you needed to create a new service in order to be…

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

I’m sorry you had a terrible interview experience. In 2017 we hired Gayle Laakmann McDowell (CTCI author) to train engineers on how to interview better and how to design better int…

FF is great. She is leading online courses for all Uber employees about business strategy and culture from real Harvard professors. It’s very educational for everyone. It’s a very …

What do you mean by cultural excesses?

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 …

Dara couldn’t be more perfect for who we need as a CEO right now and going forward. Culture is definitely shifting toward a more normal work life balance. Things were crazy for man…

Some of the assertions from the author about how things were in the past are pretty off. Office 2000 wasn't happy with 75 MHz and 32 MB ram at all. I would say the average computer…

Uber was on Hipchat, briefly experimented with Slack, went back to Hipchat, and then moved to our own Inhouse chat based on open source project, starting around the beginning the y…

He wasn't opposed to taking Uber public, he wanted to delay IPO as long as possible because going public places restrictions on how the company is run. Dara said the same comment. …

Guys this is somewhat fake news. The question was what his thoughts were on IPO. He basically said it's up to the board, but 18 to 36 months seemed reasonable. It wasn't like he's …

I worked with him. Seems like a nice guy, smart. But he's product manager, and that's it. I don't know the story as to why this was picked up but it isn't a very important story. U…

He isn't head of anything. He's a first level product manager that gave himself the title "Head of Developer Product". Recode wrote this last night and TechCrunch just cut and past…

As an Uber employee, I can say this: although the feelings on TK are mixed (some loving TK, others glad that he's gone), the feelings about Benchmark are pretty uniform. They are o…