Re:Uber Lays Off 400
by dawhizkid on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:32PM
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The "marketing manager" role at Uber is an operations role and part of a local operations teams. Your main job is not "brand marketing" but attracting new drivers and managing local incentive spend.
They've most likely (wisely) decided to centralize those decisions, so not a huge surprise.
FWIW, the operations teams (small, local, non-technical teams stationed random cities around the world) built Uber into what it is today. Scaling/automating those jobs was always an inevitable.
Re:Uber Lays Off 400
by rrix2 on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:14PM
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Most of Uber's early virality came from local teams being forced to innovate to survive. Ice Cream, Eats, Pool, Puppies, rentals all came from those folks who're now being laid off
They've most likely (wisely) decided to centralize those decisions, so not a huge surprise.
FWIW, the operations teams (small, local, non-technical teams stationed random cities around the world) built Uber into what it is today. Scaling/automating those jobs was always an inevitable.