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lainga | karma 4266 | avg karma 3.23 · 2020-04-28 20:30:17+00:00

8% of what? All employees, or engineering? (435/0.08) ~= 5400, and Uber's S-1 filing says they had 22,263 employees as of 31-12-2018.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...

(ed. - article says 27,000... but Uber's had three low-hundreds firings chunks tallying ~1260 total over last summer, and said they were freezing engineering hires. Were the extra 8k hired in the first half of 2019?)

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artursapek | karma 8048 | avg karma 3.04 · 2020-04-28 20:34:16+00:00

22,000 employees not counting drivers? Holy crap.

newfriend | karma 66 | avg karma 0.27 · 2020-04-28 21:04:51

Did you actually think they had 22,000 employees including drivers? What a fatuous remark

artursapek | karma 8048 | avg karma 3.04 · 2020-04-29 00:34:35+00:00

I honestly have no idea how many people drive for Uber. I guess it's in the hundreds of thousands?

newfriend | karma 66 | avg karma 0.27 · 2020-04-29 01:38:32+00:00

Sorry I thought most people knew they operate in basically every major city worldwide that hasn't outlawed it.

From https://www.uber.com/en-US/newsroom/company-info/

> Facts and figures as of December 2018 > 3.9 million drivers

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artursapek | karma 8048 | avg karma 3.04 · 2020-04-29 14:16:58+00:00

Holy shit, was not aware it was that many