DoorDash cuts 1,250 corporate jobs, about 6% of its workforce, after pandemic hiring surge

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'This hard reality ultimately led me to make this painful decision to reduce our team size,' DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said in a message to employees this week.

The US job market is cooling. Here's what that means for workers.

CEO Tony Xu said in a message to employees Wednesday that DoorDash was undersized before the pandemic and sped up hiring to catch up with its growth.

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