What Thuan Pham thinks about hiring

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thuan Pham has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1 Apr 2026

Our readingTalent density is self-protecting: once a team is made of A players it will only hire more of them and will not tolerate anyone who is not performing.

Their wordswhen you have team A, team A will just want to hire more A level players and yeah, they just intolerant of anybody who's not performing,

↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 22nd of 24 in this recording
1 Apr 2026

Our readingA company that stops hiring new graduates because AI makes juniors look unnecessary will have no senior engineers in a few years' time.

Their wordsthe best of the best still get offer from us because if we don't hire those folks today, what senior engineer will we have for yeah years from now, right? You have to feed the talent pipeline

↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 24th of 24 in this recording