Why does OP ask about people layd off? Are there some big waves of people being fired? I don't live in the US and I didn't read much news recently, so that's why I ask. In my country there aren't many people people in It (if any) layd off.
November: Opendoor 550, Twitter 3700+ (probably 5000+ after the 'sign the hardcore decree or be terminated'), Zendesk 350, Salesforce '100s', Meta 11000, Amazon 10000, Cisco 4000, HP 4000-6000, Stripe 1000+, Lyft 683
Hasn't happened yet but reported to do so soon: Google 10000[1]
Notice it's accelerating, both in size of layoffs and and how many tech companies are laying people off. Granted part of it may be trying to squeeze it in before the end of the year for financial purposes.
Thanks. Were most of those people in technical roles?
I see you mostly mentioned big tech corporations. What is the situation for it roles at non tech corporations and at middle and small tech companies?
Although those numbers you mentioned might sound bad, it is possible that those are the final numbers for lay offs for those companies and once they met the numbers they target and stabilize their financial situations, there won't be any more rounds of lay offs. They might even rehire some people if their economical status will improve.
Just tech companies. I don't think there are any stories on specifically how many technical people are being laid off, just overall numbers.
A couple of these stories I've seen suggested for some of these companies it's not all, or maybe even the majority, technical people (like it says 'layoffs were focused on X, Y, and Z departments', where it might have marketing or HR in there), but there's none I've found that has made it clear exactly how many people in technical roles.
Yeah, Meta cut 11k people, Amazon has a hiring freeze right now, things are slower at Google hiring, not sure about Microsoft or any of the other big tech companies. Partially driven by interest rates disproportionately affecting tech, partially these companies are just missing earnings a lot and needing to cut headcount. Not sure how private companies are faring, but probably similarly getting pressure to cut headcount -- would imagine that this would start happening in other countries too (e.g., Canada sees lagging interest rates vs. U.S.)
