Vantaggi
Benefits are strong. They offer great health, dental, cellphone, and lunches. Basically, everything a large tech company offers more or less.
Svantaggi
They say they work in an “unstructured” way but, it’s total and utter disorganization and chaos. Recently they have placed a hiring freeze on all roles yet continued to forge with interviewing. Only to rescind offers on candidates who already transferred their H1B visas to Fair from other companies. What’s worse is I as the Hiring manager was not made aware that my new employee’s offer was rescinded. I’m not sure if I’ll have a job tomorrow. Other examples of their disorganization/mismanagement: Only until recently, they had no idea where 90% of their cars were. The leaders in the People team offered drugs at a rented mansion to engineers to complete a new feature in a an unreasonable amount of time. They acquired a competitor (Canvas) in September only to lay off the entire office in October and this is after a constant limbo since June. They overspent and overpaid for cars on anticipated users for their Uber partnership only to not come into fruition causing a total shut down on hiring and affecting other parts of the business. They also misclassified contractors as vendors and did not pay these employees for 2-3 month stretches of time when the funds ran out. Their top People leader is a joke as she has no qualifications to be in a top people role other than having a BA in Psychology and being a fanatic groupie of Laszlo Bock. The business is fundamentally flawed. If Uber couldn’t make xchange profitable, this group of people (or what’s remaining of it) definitely can’t do it. The business raised prices so high their non-Uber customers will never sign up (that’s a strategic choice to avoid shutting down that business line) only to reallocate resources to their Uber partnership rendering them Uber’s highly dependent little brother.