Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
By all indications, Uber has a toxic work culture that costs them both top talent and organizational velocity.<p>I&#x27;m a college senior at a well-regarded engineering school. My CS classmates - especially women - simply do not apply to Uber, in large part because of its reputation for internal misogyny and general assholery. Four classmates interned there last summer, and as far as I know none are interested in returning. A friend of mine was actually warned off by her software engineer father. I&#x27;ve heard stories from friends who&#x27;ve worked there that corroborate Susan&#x27;s tales of infighting teams and inexplicable reorganizations due to high-level backstabbing. The one woman I know who works there wants out. Susan is a high-profile and credible source; hopefully her post takes Uber&#x27;s work culture issues from &quot;open secret&quot; to &quot;problem that has public consequences for the company&quot;.<p>The CEO should crack down and take serious steps towards addressing this problem - not just for PR, but because his company is seriously suffering as a result of these issues. Unfortunately for Uber, from what I&#x27;ve heard, Travis is part of the problem as far as Game-of-Thrones internal politics and backstabbing goes. His &quot;move fast and break things&quot; persona sounds like a poor model for subordinates. Between that and the company&#x27;s relative external success, I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath waiting for anything internal to get better any time soon.<p>Until it does, I simply hope that my acquaintances at Uber find somewhere less shitty to work.