Uber, whiteboards and racism... oh my!

Not sure why but I went for a job at Uber a while back. 

After my highly predicable rejection, they sent me a feedback form.  I'm sure they will read it carefully it and adjust their attitude for the better of all humanity.

Here's my answer to my favorite question on the survey, glad they asked...

What are any concerns/hesitations that you have about Uber?

During my 4 hour experience in my airless interview room, i overhead very clear examples of sexism and racism from the "bro" gang working next door.  eg cliche'd impersonations of Indian accents, one male yelling loudly across the the office to a female co-worker "don't forget to take condoms" and other boys club-like behaviour that made me realise that Uber, despite the PR to the contrary, is just another big corporate with a systemic blokey, non-inclusive work culture

In terms of the interview, i was poorly informed about details of the process.  On the phone, when i brought up my concerns about whiteboard interviews (where i pointed out that no one does this in Australia, and they unnecessarily favor recent graduates) my recruiter said something along the lines of "we're tailoring the interview for Australians". I assumed I didn't need to brush up on my white board skills.

Turns out tailoring the interview for Australians meant that the maths problem involved calculating water volume... on a whiteboard!  Water for Australia? Umm really?

For the record, whiteboard interviews are on a level with other antiquated corporate cargo-cult lazy pseudoscience such as hand writing recognition, body language analysis and Myers Briggs

For example: I was able to describe and solve the whiteboard problem and how to test it but unable to code effectively on a white board.  This meant that I failed the whiteboard test.  I had recently single-handedly built software for a generic Uber-like company that was valued at several hundred million dollars in 2 years but was rejected from your test because of a skill i would never, or rarely use in the workplace.

The only reason I turned up was that my recruiter said there was work available in NY.  At the interview i was informed that NY was not an option.

Oh also, it took Uber over a month and a half to reimburse my expenses, this involved several attempts by your staff to understand how to put money into an Australian bank account. I'm sure they were great the the whiteboard test though.