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Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 v... by icholy on Thursday July 08, 2021 @02:36PM (#27776082)
I never understood why uber needs 2000+ engineers on staff.
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Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 v... by nefitty on Thursday July 08, 2021 @02:43PM (#27776162)
Their client seems to work on almost any Android and iphone, including a web client, has possibly hundreds of screens, supports multiple languages, regions, currencies…
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Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 v... by foobiekr on Thursday July 08, 2021 @04:50PM (#27777432)
In order to pretend to be a tech company.

Same reason they pretended to work on flying taxis and self-driving cars. The multiple for high tech companies is greater than the multiple for taxi companies or even basic Web2.0-style one-trick app companies.

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