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Rivian lays off hundreds of workers

• prepend 4y ago
  > company's 14,000-person workforce It’s really surprising to me that there are 14,000 employees at this startup company. They make a single truck. I hope they are able to be successful but I suspect there will be many more layoffs. For comparison, Tesla has 99k and GM has 157k.
  • bsilvereagle 4y ago
    > They make a single truck. There is a single vehicle that you see on the road, today. They have the R1T, R1S, and a platform for Amazon delivery vehicles. While the R1T and R1S are based on the same “skateboard” plenty of the vehicle doesn’t overlap. Their hiring page also shows a large autonomy group. Your point likely still stands, 14k is a large team for this. But it’s not as egregious as if they only had a single vehicle not equipped for L3+ autonomy.