Uber lays off 435 people

Re:Uber lays off 435 people by mytailorisrich on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:49PM (#20932828)

Uber's core business is a taxi app and I get that there are some clever algorithms involved, but I still don't really understand how they justify the size of their engineering team.

I read that they had 2,000 engineers out of 6,000 employees in 2016, though I don't know the numbers now. That seems gigantic.

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Re:Uber lays off 435 people by kamyarg on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:42PM (#20934133)

There is Uber Eats, Freight, and JUMP bikes in addition to their ride-hailing product. I believe they share some technical similarities but still each of the four(I know of) are startups ideas imho.(See Lime, Lyft, Sennder, Delivery Hero, Takeaway.com, door dash etc.)

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Re:Uber lays off 435 people by seax on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:09PM (#20933772)

Agreed, I'm curious what they are actually working on with a team like that. Although they do have a not unsubstantial physical data center presence so I think a fair number of engineers are in support of that and not software engineers.

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Re:Uber lays off 435 people by happppy on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:51AM (#20937847)

I read Uber engineering blogs and there's a new blog every other day. IMO they are just over-engineering things thus justifying the size of engineers?

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