Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs, Thins Management 20% to Fund $10B Robotaxi Push
Justgototheeffinmoon · reddit · 2026-09-02
Uber will cut roughly 3,300 roles (about 10% of its global staff) and shrink management ranks by 20%, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told employees, per Bloomberg, bringing headcount just under 30,000 — a level last seen in 2021.
- Framed as a structural rather than cost problem: too many layers, coordination overhead and fragmented ownership.
- Micro-teams of one or two people cut by nearly half; some displaced managers move to IC roles rather than exit.
- Three Delivery Ops teams consolidated; remote work capped at 1% of employees.
- Savings are being redirected to an "autonomous future": Uber has committed over $10B to robotaxi partnerships with Avride, Lucid, Nuro and Rivian, and is keeping open 500+ roles, nearly all autonomy-related engineering.
- Uber stock rose as much as 1.7% premarket.
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