According to foreign media reports, Wei car to a new document submitted to the California Employment Development Department (Employment Development Department of California) revealed that the company’s North American headquarters in San Jose again lay off 141 people. This is the third round of layoffs this year, Wei conducted in the US, layoffs mainly in R & D and engineering jobs.
It is reported that in May this year, Wei will be laid off 70 employees and closed an office in San Francisco, September and cut 62 jobs. US Securities and Exchange Commission, earlier this year, Wei to have 640 employees in the United States.
Wei to have closed the San Jose office operations of automotive engineering and electric drive systems sector, but according to the company’s North American Joanne middot communications director; Yamani (JoAnn Yamani) said that the abolition of employees is mainly attributable to the autopilot team. Yamani said that these layoffs and recently announced a partnership with Intel autopilot department Mobileye’s about: This is “the development of Level 4 direction autopilot about us, during which there have been redundancies and duplication of effort.”
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Wei to its worldwide abolition of the number of employees from nearly 10,000 to about 7,800 people, sold its Formula one motor racing team, and delayed the time to market for an electric car. At the same time, the company’s three top executives have left the company this year, including a co-founder.