Uber employees are nervous that the company may be planning some sort of layoff that impacts its all-important engineering groups.
The company also initiated a hiring freeze in certain engineering organizations, too, but it has not commented on layoffs to employees or publicly.
To some inside the company, those words sound like the prelude to layoffs perhaps with contractors at the greatest risk. For example, he said he is eliminating Uber's tradition of"anniversary balloons" and expects to save about $250,000 in the process.sent them a bunch of balloonsOne employee told Business Insider that people seem ok with ditching anniversary balloons and about cost-cutting generally, as long as it was equitably applied.
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