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Something like this happened at UW. I remember going to a diversity career fair in 2015 and Uber had a booth there.

Turns out they were there to recruit drivers to drive for Uber.

I'm guessing this wasn't in the CSE building though... I remember going to career fairs at UW - it was a shit show. Nothing remarkable ever showed up. The line for Amazon being a mile long and a guy just pitching resumes into a shredder. As far as I know, the ones for the CSE department were better - of course.

Please try to find some kind of documentation of this. I believe you, this is simply amazing readymade satire.

I dunno, the idealized Uber driving career sounds like something a student could do as a side job. That's how IIRC Uber started off as, but it quickly became a more-than-full-time job for a lot of people.

I actually sent an email to the student newspaper but they didn't think the case was that strong.

Uber did attend the career fair for the CSE department however to recruit software engineers.

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