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Re: Uber Talent Directory

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Post by vikramkr »

It looks like post layoff they've been going above and beyond what's reasonably expected of a company in their position to treat their employees well. Can't imagine they'd have been like this in the kalanik days. Good for them I guess.

Re: Uber Talent Directory

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Post by ponker »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #3

A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.

Surprising? They're without income in a city where one-bedrooms rent for $4,000 at a time of low labor demand. Not sure what's surprising about being willing to relocate.

Re: Uber Talent Directory

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Post by ponker »

Any idea what the large number of "sales" people in the SF Bay Area do/did for Uber? There isn't an ad business... seems like a marketing-driven customer and driver acquisition program... who is/was Uber directly selling to?

Re: Uber Talent Directory

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Post by RandomBK »

This cURL will fetch the full list (JSON). It doesn't seem they put a limit on the graphql endpoint (as of time of writing).

    curl 'https://www.uber.com/talent/graphql' \
      -H 'authority: www.uber.com' \
      -H 'accept: */*' \
      -H 'x-csrf-token: x' \
      -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \
      -H 'content-type: application/json' \
      -H 'origin: https://www.uber.com' \
      -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \
      -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \
      -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \
      -H 'referer: https://www.uber.com/talent/' \
      --data-binary '{"operationName":"getExTalent","variables":{"offset":0,"limit":10000,"seed":1136864353,"params":{}},"query":"query getExTalent($offset: Int, $limit: Int, $seed: Int, $params: GetTalentParamsInput) {\n  getExTalent(offset: $offset, limit: $limit, seed: $seed, params: $params) {\n    seed\n    totalResults {\n      low\n      high\n      unsigned\n      __typename\n    }\n    results {\n      firstName\n      lastName\n      fullName\n      title\n      roleType\n      roleSubTypes\n      summary\n      location {\n        city\n        countryName\n        __typename\n      }\n      relocationWillingness\n      resumeLink\n      linkedInLink\n      otherLink\n      dribbleLink\n      githubLink\n      remoteWillingness\n      email\n      isManager\n      twitterLink\n      portfolioLink\n      isLooking\n      instagramLink\n      sharingID\n      __typename\n    }\n    __typename\n  }\n}\n"}' \
      --compressed
This results in 514 entries.

Re: Uber Talent Directory

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Post by legerdemain »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #7
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #3

A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.

Surprising? When you're unemployed during a major economic downturn lots of people would be willing to leave one of the most expensive cities in the country.

No, I think it is, in fact, somewhat interesting. I was at Uber until a couple of months ago and left for mostly unrelated reasons. A significant proportion of the people I worked with had 3-5 years of tenure at Uber, families, homes. Not people who could relocate easily, even if they wanted to.

There's an obvious and boring explanation for the prevalence of "willing to move" on this list, and that is if the layoffs mostly hit recent and more junior hires. Another company I worked for had a significantly younger and more mobile workforce, and it wasn't uncommon for new hires to move to the bay area from across the country, and then relocate to another regional office or even overseas just as easily.

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