Uber is laying off hundreds of employees in a second round of cuts at the newly-public company in just six weeks
New York Uber laid off hundreds more employees -- this time, across its engineering and product teams in an effort to"reset."
The company confirmed to CNN Business Tuesday that about 435 positions -- 170 in its product team and 265 on its engineering team -- were eliminated. The company said the layoffs represent about 8% of the product and engineering teams. Notably, the layoffs did not impact product and engineering staffers working on its growing meal-delivery business known as Eats.
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