I’m sure Travis Kalanick is so happy he dumped his shares before all this.
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
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Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never worked for a true unicorn but I've been in companies that got a sudden success and grew way too big way too fast. I think you can tell from the inside when a company loses its way. As you mention, suddenly you have tons of teams working on what seems to be fairly niche aspects of the company's product. You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development. You start having…
>> You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development. That's better than seeing man-years go into features that get deployed. I witnessed one successful control system company spin up a team of new hotshot UI engineers, all right out of the best schools. After months of work the team "updated" the product. Withing hours the call center was hit with hundreds of "You changed the g-…
Or do A/B testing and incremental rollouts?
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#363I was let go today from Uber. If anyone is looking for a Frontend/Fullstack with 7yoe. I'm here :) Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-lawrence-b77400b8/
Was it all of a sudden or were you guys told this was coming from the higher ups? How did they manage it in terms of benefits, severances etc?
The info about layoffs leaked about 3 weeks ago, which was messed up.
Overall though the severence is healthy, so I'll be plenty ok while I find another gig.
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
right. this recession is actually giving cover to let go of a lot of bloat that has built up over the years.
Well, freeing it up to compete. I expect some of the bloat is just so that someone can't work for a competitor.
You'd think so but that's at least not the impression I've gotten. At Google that's certainly going to be the case but at a company like Uber/Lyft/Airbnb the bloat ends up largely arising due to managerial bloat (managers want to grow their org to make themselves seem more important) and low technical standards for higher level ICs (which results in far more resources used to accomplish each project).
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#365I was let go today from Uber. If anyone is looking for a Frontend/Fullstack with 7yoe. I'm here :) Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-lawrence-b77400b8/
Did you get good severance? Hope you did. If you can afford it, I’d suggest taking a break.
Yeah severance is pretty good. I'll try to get a gig quick and then push off the start date a bit.
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#366Even in this market whereby consumers must order food via apps, none of the food delivery companies are profitable from my understanding.
Can anyone explain how this works/how this came to be?
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#367Anyone working at Uber, can you share how is morale in Uber at this moment? How might this affect hiring in the future when they need more people, but people don't want to go there? Honestly, in the beginning of 2020, I was too optimistic and planning to apply to Uber around June, thinking that corona will go away
I only speak for myself and my own observations - both morale and productivity have been low the past 2 weeks.
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#368What in the world did Uber ever need that many people for?
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#369Makes you wonder how these companies ever planned to last during the "next" economic downturn. I don't think anyone bet on a global pandemic causing this shock but the point still stands: These kind of companies were still burning cash at incredible rates 10+ years in. How were they ever going to survive?
Re: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never worked for a true unicorn but I've been in companies that got a sudden success and grew way too big way too fast. I think you can tell from the inside when a company loses its way. As you mention, suddenly you have tons of teams working on what seems to be fairly niche aspects of the company's product. You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development. You start having…
>> You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development. That's better than seeing man-years go into features that get deployed. I witnessed one successful control system company spin up a team of new hotshot UI engineers, all right out of the best schools. After months of work the team "updated" the product. Withing hours the call center was hit with hundreds of "You changed the g-…
That's more of a failure for the ux and product vision than it is a failure of project management. The trick isn't to just roll out new changes slowly, but to involve the users and figure out what needs to change and how.