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Re:Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving a... by john_moscow on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:31PM (#21255323)
Out of curiosity, is there anything in common about the structure of those companies? Small bootstrapped businesses? Mid-size profitable enterprise? VC-backed startups? Large publicly traded companies?
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Re:Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving a... by yashap on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:19AM (#21259361)
Mostly VC backed ex-startups (now 10+ yrs old, 100s to 1000s of employees). Though I’ve also got a few friends at a bootstrapped company that never took VC money (~15 years old, but still small, ~30 employees), as well as a number of friends at Amazon (working on different RDS teams).

All have had the same experience re: there being more feature work and tech debt elimination than they have the resources to complete.

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