Uber needed an excuse to layoff some people for a long time now. They went with a very "parallel" strategy, spinning up new teams for every project and ignoring

Uber needed an excuse to layoff some people for a long time now. They went with a very "parallel" strategy, spinning up new teams for every project and ignoring code/process efficiency by sharing. Basically throw money at it to win quickly. Pretty unsophisticated engineering, enough microservices and huge DBs to ignore coordination problems. They will transition to a more efficient structure with more co-ordination now that they have many different bets going and 1-2 core businesses that could work. Right in line with wallstreet expectations and Dara's job to make Uber profitable. I called it a year ago :D