Wow. With that in mind, I'm inclined to believe their layoffs are more about taking advantage of the climate to appropriately downsize than they are about any new financial stress.
I joined a company that provided Pluralsight to technical staff, policy was that all technical staff had to complete some mandatory courses on there. Pluralsight used two Account Managers to put on a live webinar for myself and another lead in my division to introduce us to Pluralsight
The webinar wasn't especially useful, there were only 15 technical staff in our division and I still don't know why it wasn't just a pre-recorded video learning course on their video learning platform.
I've never seen or even heard of a computer-based corporate training course that wasn't an absolute joke. I don't think quality of material and instruction are any factor whatsoever in those purchasing decisions.
Actually the driver rated Kalanick 1 star:
> Later, the Uber driver app prompts him to rate Kalanick, as he does all his riders. Kamel gives him one star.