Pros
Great to work with the technology. Really got me motivated and in the office early, which really makes everything else that much easier. (mostly) Great group of people. It was a great experience to be all in on a project. For real! Not just what you said to get the job.
Cons
Management was void! Nobody knew how or wanted to know how to make a decision. They thinly veiled this fact with a pre-emptive "Things change constantly so what happened yesterday may not happen tomorrow" So what you ended up with was a few cliches that each had their own idea about what day to day was going to look like. I have never worked anywhere where an employee in a position above me complained about another employee as annoying or refer to another group as less than tolerable like at Uber ATG. It was Lord of the Flies meets Animal House. As a social experiment the job was a microcosm of the fall of the western civilization. So I have mixed feelings about it, I really - really - really wish upper management would have seen this, stepped in and given the crew direction. With a little focus things could have been amazing, instead the office in Tempe self-destructed within a year. It was NOT a place where you wanted to tell your team lead that you just had a unsafe interaction with other vehicles in public. I know because I made the mistake of trying to always inform the lead if anything questionable happened. My mistake! A slight infraction would turn into an eminent disaster and a case for execution would be made. Of course not everybody was subject to the same rules. Some of the things other people were doing were careless for the sake of being careless yet as far as I know that was not something of concern. It is not surprising what happened in 2018 happened. Safety was more a tool to keep employees in line rather than an ethic. The similarity between work at Uber ATG Tempe and Lord of the Flies is uncanny. From what I have seen and what I hear, things in Pittsburgh are awesome, the Tempe issues were not relevant. Which, for me, means that working in Pitt would be a dream job! And I highly suggest it, Tempe is gone so this review is just me venting. Thanks for reading.
