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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by panarky on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:35AM (#16178428)
When I see Uber on a resume I have to ask more questions to get comfortable that I'm not hiring an asshole.

Uber has many good, decent people, but there is definitely some guilt by association.

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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by xyzzy_plugh on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:41AM (#16178490)
For what it's worth, I do the same -- except for Google and Apple , employees, and also anywhere else.

Guilt by association is just you being naive.

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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by panarky on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:46AM (#16178523)
> Guilt by association is just you being naive.

You might be right.

But there are many people making hiring decisions who are just as naive as I am, so the Uber brand doesn't help.

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Re:The Fall of Travis Kalanick by misun78 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:32PM (#16179109)
You are both anecdotally and factually incorrect. Go on LinkedIn and set past company to Uber. Most engineers (and nearly 100% I personally know) are either at Netflix, Facebook or Google. These companies in fact set targeted recruitment tactics in 2017 for Uber employees. I got emails from every company imaginable when the Susan Fowler report came out.
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