Ride-hailing giant Uber gave layoff notices to over 400 employees Tuesday
Uber axed 435 people from its product and engineering teams, representing about 8% of its workforce, as reported by TechCrunch. But ahead of that announcement, hiring at the company — and specifically in the divisions affected by layoffs — saw a
layoffs are often preceded by slowdowns in hiring that foreshadow the types of positions about to be cut. In this case, hiring dropped in early August across the company’s Design, Product Management, and Engineering categories
