Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs

Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by pkaye on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:17AM (#20660672)

There is a lot of "make work" kind of project at some of these companies. Lets design a whole new logging infrastructure or database instead of adopting or improving something that already exists. Or lets overanalyze the the font that we use for our webpage or design a new font because we have a lot of VC money and nothing better to do.

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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by r00fus on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:48AM (#20661753)

I see it as cargo-cult facade that they hope will attract the kind of engineers that work for FAANGM.

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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by walshemj on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:50AM (#20661551)

Redesigning a font and saving say 20% of its size is a worth while saving - you wont believe how much the average website is bloated by using fancy fonts.

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