Uber reviews

Uber has started to track diff count and other metrics for worker productivity, and it is an input to performance discussions. I often see diffs that are committed without testing or unnecessarily broken down just to meet quota requirements. It hurts quality without materially improving true productivity in my opinion. I also feel like management is quite weak. My managers are all just people managers, assigning work to engineers and attending meetings. I don't see ownership in them to drive culture or engineering efficiency or product strategy. That stuff is pushed down to the engineers who are busy in the weeds. As a result, I see tons of examples of poor engineering design, incidents that happen due to lack of testing, and so on.

Huge employee turn over, was let go due to 'head count' which wasn't true (my manager was left with 2 people in her team after this - that's not a team). They do not address problems with leads and will always blame whoever doesn't hit target even if on holiday. Extremely micromanaging had a breakdown 2 months in the job because of the stress, micromanaging and unrealistic work load. In the short time (less than 6 months) I was there over 7 people were fired.