Inside Waymo's Hiring Binge, Hacker News

              Feb. ,                7: 02 AM PST              ·

Comment by EJ Ying
                                                                      
      
        
          
Alphabet’s Waymo still hasn’t perfected a self-driving car. So it is throwing more money at the problem.
Waymo nearly doubled its headcount to 1, 749 employees, known as “Waymonauts,” from about a year ago, said a person with knowledge of the figure. Much of the expansion came from the hiring of hundreds of engineers Waymo hopes will help it achieve a technological breakthrough in developing a reliable self-driving vehicle.
The workforce expansion suggests Waymo’s annual cost is nearing $ 1 billion, while its brand-new automated taxi business is yielding just hundreds of thousand dollars a year in revenue. One signal that Waymo is a long way from developing into a business was the departure last fall of Waymo’s first chief commercial officer, Amee Chande, after just 25 months on the job. Her departure hasn’t previously been reported.
                                            
        
    
             
          
                         
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