Pros
Good benefits Pay is competitive Generous Uber credits every month Choice of Mac or Windows computer Dynamic Google Suite instead of Office
Cons
Extremely high turnover, creates roadblocks to moving forward with projects. I waited for two months for someone to return from vacation and sabbatical only to be told they were now leaving the company. I saw this trend happen multiple times in addition to being told suddenly that a person I talked to last week had since left Uber. Red flag when it’s joked that being with the company for two years makes you a “dinosaur.” Each team you work with has their own set of priorities that usually differs from your teams, making accomplishing assigned goals or launches extremely difficult. No person will have the same general grasp of an initiative and often I found things I was assigned to were being completely deprecated or deprioritized by the team I needed to work with Upper management is out of reach. My manager’s manager rarely reached out to me directly and instead deployed someone on my team to relay their messages There is little to no onboarding or development, in addition to job definition being extremely ambiguous and ever-shifting. My team went through two major name and org changes in a matter of months, and the programs I was assigned to were constantly in limbo of being completely altered for priority and rollout. I received little definition from my manager on how to get around in my day-to-day, ie where to access commonly-used resources and had to learn almost everything instant immersion style. This is not the best when you’re trying to establish yourself with multiple teams. For me, the young start-up culture that I initially thought would be a refreshing ‘pro’ turned quickly to a ‘con.’ For a while I heard everyone (not an exaggeration) say ‘TLDR,’ and eventually had to look it up. For anyone like me you’ll be puzzled to learn that this means ‘too long, didn’t read.’ Upper upper management uses the phrase and it’s peppered in to everything— presentations, emails, documents. For me I cringe reading and hearing it because any of the companies I worked for before would have seriously questioned why I’m implying someone wouldn’t read what’s being mentioned in entirety. I find it off-putting but the broad majority I worked with embraced it- enough said for me to know this is not the right place for me.
