The Dallas office is an administrative office and will not have eng roles. Also, these are all "promises", we really have to see how it plays out. Promises are cheap. Remember how Foxcon was going to hire 10k people in Wisconsin

That isn't what the article in the parent comment says:

>The office would include engineers, finance executives, salespeople and other roles across Uber's business.

Here https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-new-offices-chicago-dal...

This directly quoted an Uber exec saying that it will be focused on HR, sales, and ops

"engineers" is a pretty nebulous term these days though.

I know many engineers who want to get out of the Bay Area. San Francisco is a disaster, they’re priced out of the the peninsula, and commuting one or two hours each way from the hinterlands loses its appeal real fast.

That said, getting laid off like this would be much harder to bounce back from if you were not in a tech hub.

Statements like that ("we will create N jobs!") are completely meaningless.