Bewertungen für Uber

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Schwieriger regionaler Markt, durchschnittliche Bezahlung

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Kein Leben, keine dezente Arbeit, kein gutes Team, kein gutes Gehalt. Was man als Marketing Manager macht ist noch nicht mal richtiges Marketing. Es gilt eher shine als do - alle wollen zeigen wie toll die sind, aber keiner macht eigentlich wirklich was.

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Overall Uber was a mixed experience and in the hindsight I regret joining them. The main reason being the very negative corporate culture and the poor people management skills of its top management.

1) Uber is severely understaffed and desperately tries to get people in all areas - and it notably lacks good leaders. Traditionally Uber promotes purely based on operational results. Unfortunately, the best managers aren't necessarily the best leaders. My direct manager specifically was one of the worst people managers I've ever encountered throughout my career (although he apparently did bring in good results in his past role).
2) Uber had to hire so fast that building a sustainable corporate culture hasn't been much of a priority. Uber naturally would argue otherwise not add a Mary of fact for anyone who had worked for a top company before (be it consulting, FMCG or tech) will be heavily disappointed by the lack of common spirit in the company. Some call Uber's culture toxic. I would rather consider that it lacks one altogether.
2) Feedback is super unstructured. I personally am a strong believer that feedback is one of the best ways to learn and improve on a daily basis. Unfortunately, although Uber has a very extensive bi-annual feedback procedure it's not a very helpful one. Additionally, in my case my direct manager couldn't have cared less about providing feedback, even going as far as stating "please do not ask me again for feedback outside the formal process". That's an absolute no.go.
3) Since feedback is unstructured, also performance reviews are very intransparent. The bonus (which makes a significant part of the salary) is distributed solely by the direct manager and does not necessarily have to be linked to the targets, since they are anyway moving all the time. That's a problem since it skews the bonus payments towards people who have been around the longest and is biased against new comers.
4) Good leaders leave the company, the bad ones stay. Uber has seen an unbelievable amount of fluctuation in the past 12 months, both forced (= firing) as well us voluntary. On average a new hire only spends less than 2 years with Uber (that's significantly lower that with other Tech companies, such as Google, notably for senior positions). Additionally, people who leave very often have one thing in common: They are looking back with mixed and negative feelings. That's extremely sad, considering the fact that Uber is the only one of my previous employers I cannot warmly recommend to my network.
5) Poor learning and development for General Managers. Most GMs are recruited from within. The few that come from outside, very often do not last long. The main reason is that Uber looks any sort of training and development for external people. And also Uber's new manager training is rather a joke compared to the state of the art L&D programs of other companies.

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The best analogy here is like a 14 year old that looks like a 20 year old... Uber is still a young company and I think I expected more things to be in place that are just not yet. Now that I am here and doing the work, I see it differently, but I think that we're still young, we're growing fast, and we need to provide the feedback while also being patient to thoughtfully get the right systems and procedures in place.

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* Repeated strong success of deep learning models coming out of this group comes with a territory and politics in the org which is really universal across humans/workplaces especially in a competitive area like self-driving.

* It is very important to be unaffected/able to stay out of wider politics and continue cranking out work/results if you are at Uber ATG. This can be challenging but overall the results coming out of ATG Toronto, the problem and data are amazing and the org is moving in the right direction.

* Not all humans in the wider org are unbiased/honest with themselves. Some of them are, more should strive to be. This is a fact of life in most organizations unfortunately.

* The whole team is under-leveled relative to it's contributions but this will hopefully be fixed in the near term as the results of team's work show over and over again. Fact is the team is super strong and the opportunity is enormous.

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Uber has long had an identify crisis whether it is a large start-up or medium-sized corporation. With this, many of the controls and infrastructure needed for a company of this size don't exist still. Also, given the space, priorities shift quickly. The hottest problem last half could be totally defunded the next, which can be frustrating.

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Young people in management need seasoning.

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I just completed 3 months working at Uber and until now nothing to say about downside.

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A lot o f work

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- Lots to do in very short period
- Never off office