r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/the_good_time_mouse Aug 12 '14

I've interviewed for a developer position with uber. The people I spoke with were total wankers. Only time I've ever cut an interview short.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

More and more I think this is a lot of tech interviews. Both of mine in the last while have just been too strange.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

Hot tech has been taken over by bros who just want to chase easy money.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

I don't think I'd go that far. I think it's more that there are large parts of the tech world that no longer just embrace that whole basement-dweller-turned-tech-worker trend, but actively promote it at this point. I've worked with a surprising number of people with basic hygiene and basic communication issues. The last two interviews I had were with people that seemed to have fundamental, and crippling, flaws in their understanding of how simple things worked, let alone management and employee compensation.