It's been over a year since Uber laid off about 20% of its engineering org

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1428003771330793479

by mooreds • 5 years ago

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fridif2• 5 years ago

Uber has entered the phase where it will begin buying outside tech for innovation while relying on lower cost engineers to hopefully keep the lights on.

If they don't develop a regulatory moat themselves, you may see a new big competitor in 7 years (which is what Facebook did to Myspace and what TikTok did to Facebook).

bellyfullofbac• 5 years ago

Can they make that moat? This analysis from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132830 suggests there are tougher times ahead..

fridif2• 5 years ago

I personally do think the end is nigh for them, similar to what happened with Blue Apron

tuatoru• 5 years ago

Uber already has at least 7 serious competitors.

https://www.marketing91.com/uber-competitors/

Also in freight and food delivery: -

https://www.marketingtutor.net/uber-competitors/

TimSchumann• 5 years ago

Here's the whole thread. Since Twitter has started forcing logins to interact with the site, I've found it much more infuriating as a 'user' without an account.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428003771330793479.html

thrtythreeforty• 5 years ago

Someone linked me to nitter.net yesterday which is an open source implementation of the same Twitter UI but manages to be a delight to use, with none of the bloated dark pattern garbage that the official site has become.

xadhominemx• 5 years ago

Shocking: an employee in division with layoffs said the layoffs were a bad idea.

rhelzerman• 5 years ago

The most interesting part of the story has been left out? I mean sure, engineers would start to quit, top-flight engineers would quit, etc etc.

But was there any impact to quality of service? Are people not getting Ubers, or waiting longer for Ubers? Were there new food delivery services delayed or did they roll out more or less on time?

wittycardio• 5 years ago

Anecdotally the Uber app has gotten a lot more buggy in the past year or so for me. Not to mention the increased cost + waiting time ( though those might not be just engineering related)

It's been over a year since Uber laid off about 20% of its engineering org

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