Hacker News Reader

In most of the country $40k/year is a very reasonable salary for a full-time, mid-level office role.

Mid-level? Naw.

That's lab rat money. I'd say 5-10k more, so we're close, but that's a double digit percent difference from 40k.

But Uber is in San Francisco, which is not most of the country.

True, but "The layoffs will affect multiple offices worldwide".