One thing I do not understand, can people really âworkâ, i.e. R&D/hard core development for 12 hours a day(60 hours a week)? My experience is doing R&D software development after 6 hours, I am spent. Then I have to switch to writing documents, some automated scripting etc.
Marketing, Product Management, Program Management & maybe supply chain, Marketing analytics, corporate finance etc might be different though.
You know, they donât⌠Youâre absolutely right. I had a boss who was VP/cofounder who would only come in for 8 hours a day. He knew that heâd get his best work done and then went out and had a social life. If you get tired, you make mistakes that arenât worth the time they take to fix.
Depends on company & nature of the work. Some companies have set up their infrastructure so well that most of the coding work is almost brain-less. Take an object from backend, modify it, and send it up to frontend. This way most work is transferrable (i.e. everyone is replaceable), and can keep coding without deep thinking. Iâve seen (and done) 12+ hrs of coding+codereviewing+meetings everyday for few months stretch. Younger folks in 20s do that in almost all high stress teams. At times, I used to just go buy stuff like expensive electronics, cars, whenever I get a chance to get off work - that was my way of releasing stress.
Not a good culture, I know, and a lot of people switch jobs. In our case, people can freely switch teams, so only the highly ambitious ones join the high stress teams. In Uberâs case, maybe switching teams isnât that easy - understandable in smaller places. But to be honest, if youâve gotten to a point where you work at Uber and want to kill yourself, you should look for other positions. There should be a truckload of recruiters spamming their inboxes on a weekly basis right about now anyway.
âAlsup is not expected to rule immediately on Wednesday, but he may intimate which way he is leaning. At a hearing last month, Alsup warned Uber that it may face an injunction, saying of the evidence amassed by Waymo: âIâve never seen a record this strong in 42 years.ââ
plus the judge referred the case to the US Attorneyâs office for criminal investigation and it looks like there will at least be a partial injunction
Hey Roy21, donât be dumb. I have said it many times my English grammar is horrible. I canât compete with you, so stop being the literacy police. It would be like you trying to play soccer with me. You would suffer a tremendous defeat. If you are my age that is.
Thereâs a new thing in the market, that is similar to Uber, except I canât tell you right now the name of that company. I lost the topic when I was browsing Facebook.
I apologize for the confusion. It is not similar, but kind of same type of app. You will hear/see it pretty soon. It is dedicated to, in most parts, to deliver âthingsâ you need on a given moment. From ice creams, beers for the happy campers in colleges or universities, toâŚhmmmâŚthose rubbery things to prevent abortions.