Uber Software Developer reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(553 total reviews)
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Dara Khosrowshahi

83% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Uber with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 553 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Uber is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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553 reviews
5.0
Aug 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Cultural values are practical and solution oriented - Everyone is encouraged to be aggressive - Hands off environment where no one tells you what to work on. You tell a story of why your work is impactful, and whoever delivers most impact rises.

Cons

- Need a better reward policies to make sure employees are also focused on long-term impact. - If you're not mature enough, do not join.

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Uber Response
9y
Thanks for the review and joining us for the ride - keep it up!
1.0
Aug 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free uber riders per month

Cons

- Lengthy interview process (recruiters are lazy to reply). - During recruitment you will hear things like we are very flat management , start-up culture, we value talent, etc. But in practise when you join and if you want to change your team then Its quite the opposite. They really don't care about talent and YOU are just another use and throw resource for the company - Fake career promises - Recruiters as well as team managers are trained to lie and deceit on every stage - Extremely poor relocation support - You cannot unleash your potential or talent when it comes to programming, company bureaucracy, policies and hierarchy overtakes everything. - Only few limited teams have the pleasure to do some cool stuff.

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Uber Response
9y
Thanks for writing up this review. I'm sorry you had less than an ideal experience in your time here, and I see you've moved on to another opportunity, but I'd love to dig into specifics you point out in your cons as they're points we haven't heard before. We consistently hear in internal and external employee feedback that employees' potential and impact is greater at Uber than any place they've worked before, so it's surprising to see the opposite in your review. If you'd be willing, please reach out and we can set up a time to chat confidentially. Thanks again for taking the time - pierce@uber.com.
1.0
Jul 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work with some very brilliant people. - Opportunity to learn a lot about software design, data analytics, marketing, biz dev etc. - Center of attention at cocktail parties since you are working at the hottest company in the world.

Cons

- Ultra-aggressive deadlines, cumbersome processes, and huge workload. - Daily firing (stack ranking and constantly letting "bottom performers" go) - Terrible place for new grads as there are no grace periods to ramp up or learn. Many let go after just two months. - Offers no longer competitive with many established companies when one considers the misleading nature of the preferred share prices. - Incredible amounts of politics (company culture encourages back-stabbing amongst colleagues) - Company lies to recruits (stating huge bonuses, using preferred share prices to calculate equity compensation, promises for quick promotion, etc). - Bad food with dinner served at 8:15. - Firing people right before their stock vest cliff. - Equity won't be liquid for a long time, if ever. - Highly stressful environment.

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Uber Response
9y
Thanks for taking the time to write up this review. I'm sorry you've had less than an ideal experience at Uber and I appreciate the specific feedback you've provided. I'd love to set up a confidential conversation to chat about specific actions we can take as a company to make Uber a better place to work. If you're willing, I'd really appreciate it. Please reach out, and thanks again: pierce@uber.com.
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