In what way is this obvious? Per Techcrunch[1], they moved their Pasadena lidar team to SF[2], presumably parting ways with those not willing to relocate. The linked article has a quote from the CEO saying:

> The company will “continue to hire aggressively in the most critical areas within engineering, which right now means doubling down on senior leadership and senior IC roles to further support out improving core tech objective,” Ammann wrote in the memo. “From here we expect to recruit and grow across our engineering teams for the balance of the year.”

That seems pretty definitively contradictory to the claim that they're not hiring or expanding engineering.

This is from probably thirty seconds of Googling, but apparently that's far above the effort bar for topmost top-level comments on HN... (this is in reference to GP's moronic comment, not you).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/cruise-lays-off-8-of-workf...

[2] I wondered why they had a team in Pasadena while headquartered in SF... it was an acquisition that they hadn't consolidated.

First to go.