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Job Cuts at GM-Owned Cruise Hit Engineers Harder Than Suggested
- Of 165 Cruise staff in layoff notice, 40% were engineers
- Company added ex-Facebook executive to board of directors
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Cruise, the self-driving car unit majority owned by General Motors Co., dismissed dozens of engineers as part of the job cuts the company described earlier as a “doubling down” on its engineering work and talent.
In a notice to mayors and other California government officials dated May 15, Cruise disclosed that 165 employees would be permanently laid off. Of those workers, 40% had the words engineer or engineering in their job title.