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Uber is freezing hiring for software engineers and product managers across its US and Canadian workforce, the company acknowledged to Bloomberg on Friday. The shift was reported by Yahoo earlier in the day. The freeze does not apply to Uber's autonomous vehicle and freight shipping divisions.
The news comes a day after Uber reported second quarter operating losses of $5.4 billion—a new record for the company. That figure exaggerates Uber's quarterly burn rate because it includes more than $4 billion in one-time charges related to Uber's initial public offering. Still, excluding IPO-related charges still leaves around $1.2 billion in operating losses, worse than the $1 billion the firm lost in the first quarter.
Uber recently laid off 400 marketing workers. According to Yahoo, Uber employees are worried that this could be a prelude to broader cuts as the company's struggles to stem its losses.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:41AM
The first adopters of stairs fell to their deaths. Hell, people still fall down stairs and die quite often. You would think we'd have worked out all the issues with stairs throughout the millennia. As it turns out, living is quite dangerous; the death rate is 100%.
Maybe self-driving cars still have issues. But Waymo has driven first adopters around for eight months and I haven't heard of any of them dying, yet. Maybe one of them will get T-boned by a drunk truck driver before the end of the year, but I'm not really seeing any glaring reasons to FUD self-driving cars.
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