<story><title>Uber&apos;s crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>&amp;gt; Ariana Huffington joins Uber&amp;#x27;s board around the same time and releases her book on the importance of sleep right around this time, and piles of free copies are available in the office. Yes, sleep is important. So why am I at the office past midnight? Right: the deadline that can not be moved.&lt;p&gt;This feels too familiar. “You have unlimited vacation, just take a week off, but we are not moving that deadline.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>I was at Uber during this time. Her book was stacked on tables all around the main headquarters offices, free to take.&lt;p&gt;Took a looooong time for them to disappear and I&amp;#x27;m still not convinced more than a handful of people cared.&lt;p&gt;People didn&amp;#x27;t really like her internally. She was good friends with Travis apparently and that&amp;#x27;s about as far as the relationship to the company seemed to go.&lt;p&gt;There was once a time where employees could request a ride with her directly from the app but to be honest the prospect sounded horrifying.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber&apos;s crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>&amp;gt; Ariana Huffington joins Uber&amp;#x27;s board around the same time and releases her book on the importance of sleep right around this time, and piles of free copies are available in the office. Yes, sleep is important. So why am I at the office past midnight? Right: the deadline that can not be moved.&lt;p&gt;This feels too familiar. “You have unlimited vacation, just take a week off, but we are not moving that deadline.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>president</author><text>To be fair this happens because there are those who are willing to hurt themselves in order to get ahead in their career. We&amp;#x27;ve all had coworkers that send late emails at 2am in the morning or don&amp;#x27;t use up their vacation days because they want to appear as hard working and as loyal to the company. Many of these people have no real skill and sacrificing their free time is the only real edge they have. This is fairly common and observable at your standard big enterprise software corp. Not trying to shift the blame from companies but it does take two to tango.</text></comment>