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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?)

22,000 employees not counting drivers? Holy crap.
There were a few rounds, totaling at least 1000

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/technology/uber-layoffs.h...

Ah ok. Article is paywalled for me so I couldn't see that.