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I work for Lyft and was part of this cut. I truly worked toward fixing things, and I don't want to sound salty here even though will, there's not much going on with Lyft or Uber to save in terms of tech. It's shoddy and useless. For the most part if Amazon got into the game now, and with their flywheel, they could eat Lyft alive and wait for Uber to bleed dry.

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I'm sorry for it. Just wondering and want to know your perspective, if teams like ML and Data Science are more of a luxury than a necessity? They're mostly not a revenue generating team and I constantly see them being part of such layoffs.

They are at Lyft which tries to solve hard problems like Pricing and Dispatch optimization.

For other, perhaps smaller, companies you still need a Data Analyst or someone who can read data and make sense of it, but not a Data Scientist who works in a silo and has a sexy job title.

Both Uber and Lyft have self-driving initiatives. Perhaps their regular ride-hailing business doesn't have much tech but they hired some famous people to do their self-driving tech.

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