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Or at least several hundred engineers. Does Uber really need several thousand engineers? It's kinda nuts to me, WhatsApp scaled to a billion with 50, you figure an order of magnitude more to deal with the fact that a large part of Uber is turning legal compliance into code.

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When you read their stories about managing 10,000 microservices or whatever.. I don't want to trivialize their domain but it seems like a bit of empire building happened.

Not arguing that there isn't probably a level of bloat at Uber, but the complexity of Uber's product is a lot more than other commenters are implying here. Their ML platform alone seems like a monster: https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo-machine-learning-platform/

I think they have their own ML platform because they hired a lot of engineers, not because the business necessitated one.

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