Uber to hire over 150 young people in Kraków's Center of Excellence

San Francisco-based Uber, a "crowdsourced taxi service," will employ more than 150 people in its first CEE Center of Excellence in the city center of Kraków, the company informed. "Currently, we have 93 employees and will have as many as 120 by the end of 2016. Eventually, the Center for Excellence intends to hire 150 specialists in total, but I think the number will be exceed next year," said Kacper Winiarczyk, Director of Uber Polska. Mainly, the company is looking for educated youth and senior students with the knowledge of foreign languages (English, Italian, French, Russian, German, Czech and Slovak). Their task will be supporting Uber operations in the region of Europe, Near East and Africa. The investment project is estimated at PLN 40 million and was backed by the American Embassy in Poland and American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).