other folks have responded about the state of Uber’s Autonomous driving program, so I just wanted to weigh in about the other question here.
GCP was not a strong competitor (in our eyes) when the on-prem decision was being made in the 2011-2013 timeframe, which was also before there was even an Autonomous program. The reason early infra was on-prem largely boiled down to a general distrust for the cloud from the Boss, who in my recollection had had some bad experiences with other portfolio companies suffering major downtime due to AWS outages.
Uber’s relationship with Google was great until that little legal matter. They were huge and very helpful investors in Uber.
Nana's mission is to provide economic opportunities for people in the trades. We operate a managed marketplace in the appliance repair space, paired with a free-of-charge training program that helps to up-skill folks looking for greener pastures - which means we are building technology to help novices perform like experts.
JS/TS shop, in React Native, React and Node/Express. 10 engineers. We raised a $20M Series A last year, are live in cities in the 3 continental US timezones, and are currently facilitating on the order of 150+ jobs per day.
We offer competitive pay, 401k, covered medical, probably a few more things, and we have a lovely office in the Tribune Tower building in beautiful downtown Oakland.
i'm not any kind of Asian but I believe #2, chopsticks sticking out of your rice, is rooted in a belief that it resembles the incense burners that would be set up at a funeral - a sort of bad luck charm.
The requirement to be actively searching for work has actually been temporarily paused in many states, including eg/ CA https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/eligibility.htm. Presumably that provision will be removed along with the SIPs, but just figured it was worth being precise here.
