Job loss and cortisone mania(tilschuenemann.de)
158 points by speckx | 93 comments
Personal blog post about being laid off from a tech job, an autoimmune flare-up after illness, and manic productivity as a side effect of cortisone treatment.
#layoffs on Hacker News
66 stories tagged layoffs, newest first.
Plex laid off the whole player team(forums.plex.tv)
61 points by zzyzxd | 114 comments
Plex forum thread about a 2026.20.0 beta bug where 4K Dolby Vision files won't play on iOS/tvOS, where a developer mentions the player team was laid off.
EA is shutting down BioWare(theverge.com)
618 points by aaronbrethorst | 464 comments
The Verge news article reporting that EA is closing BioWare, cancelling the next Mass Effect game, and cutting about 400 jobs after being taken private.
The game industry is broken – can we fix it?(knowledge.edge-online.com)
27 points by mellosouls | 39 comments
Edge magazine article examining the video game industry's crisis of layoffs and studio closures and how it might be fixed, featuring Tim Sweeney.
Leaving Tech(ryanbigg.com)
133 points by jonahx | 127 comments
Ryan Bigg, a 20-year Ruby and JavaScript developer, explains on his blog why he is leaving the tech industry after repeated job rejections.
Fable Took My Job(cendyne.dev)
162 points by jllyhill | 196 comments
A personal blog post by Cendyne describing losing an engineering job after leadership decided an LLM called Fable was cheaper than their compensation.
Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me(twitter.com)
36 points by doener | 11 comments
X post by Tomek Korbak saying he and colleagues were fired by OpenAI after communicating with auditor METR about an AI agent containment incident and safety concerns.
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"(techcrunch.com)
308 points by trakkstar | 201 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute the company's misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.
Red Hat being phased out of existence?(techrights.org)
158 points by amcclure | 84 comments
A Techrights blog post by Roy Schestowitz claiming IBM is phasing out the Red Hat brand, as happened with other companies IBM acquired.
Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software(gamefromscratch.com)
538 points by bauc | 493 comments
GameFromScratch news article reporting that Microsoft has laid off most or all of the idTech engine team at id Software.
Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI(twitter.com)
575 points by justinwp | 339 comments
An X post by Justin Poehnelt saying Google fired him after he created the viral Google Workspace CLI, and describing internal reactions and legal concerns.
Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
569 points by throwarayes | 495 comments
A Pragmatic Engineer newsletter deepdive by Gergely Orosz reporting on how Meta leadership's AI-driven changes are affecting its engineering organization.
GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values(about.gitlab.com)
627 points by AnonGitLabEmpl | 609 comments
GitLab blog post "GitLab Act 2," a letter to customers and investors announcing a strategic shift, workforce reduction, and changes to its CREDIT values.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce(reuters.com)
1264 points by PriorityLeft | 897 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, "Building for the future," accompanying news that the company is cutting about 20% of its workforce.
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%(twitter.com)
453 points by adrianmsmith | 707 comments
A tweet from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announcing that the company is reducing its workforce by about 14%.
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs(bloomberg.com)
765 points by Vaslo | 798 comments
News report that Meta told employees it will cut about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 jobs, in a push for efficiency.
Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs(nationaltoday.com)
476 points by kklisura | 257 comments
Austin Today news article reporting that Oracle filed over 3,000 H-1B visa petitions while conducting mass layoffs, citing federal data.
Oracle slashes 30k jobs(rollingout.com)
791 points by pje | 688 comments
Rolling Out article reporting that Oracle laid off about 30,000 workers in the U.S., India and elsewhere via an early-morning email without prior warning.
Digg is gone again(digg.com)
372 points by hammerbrostime | 401 comments
Digg's homepage announcement "A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next" explaining the company is significantly downsizing its team after struggling to find product-market fit.
Layoffs at Block(twitter.com)
852 points by mlex | 967 comments
Jack Dorsey's X post sharing his note to Block employees announcing a cut from over 10,000 to under 6,000 staff, with severance details.
Amazon cuts 16k jobs(reuters.com)
612 points by DGAP | 838 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Amazon is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as part of a restructuring tied to AI and efficiency efforts.
Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
325 points by Daemon404 | 276 comments
A Tell HN post reporting that Bending Spoons laid off nearly all Vimeo staff after acquiring it, leaving fewer than 15 engineers, with comment discussion.
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team(github.com)
1349 points by kevlened | 763 comments
A closed GitHub pull request on the tailwindcss.com repo proposing an /llms.txt endpoint serving text-only Tailwind CSS documentation for LLM consumption.
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?(english.elpais.com)
509 points by PaulHoule | 844 comments
El País English article on whether AI and automation should be taxed as tech giants announce layoffs tied to the AI race.
AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is(fastcompany.com)
580 points by felineflock | 416 comments
Fast Company article arguing that job cuts stem from companies redirecting budgets to AI spending rather than AI directly replacing workers.
Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division(theverge.com)
425 points by Lionga | 349 comments
The Verge news article reporting Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI division while still hiring for its superintelligence team, citing Axios.
Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year(cnbc.com)
503 points by frays | 235 comments
CNBC article reporting that Google has cut 35% of managers overseeing small teams over the past year, per a company executive.
4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program(kcrw.com)
415 points by ProAm | 521 comments
NPR article republished by KCRW reporting that nearly 4,000 NASA employees chose to leave the agency through a deferred resignation program.
Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails(htxt.co.za)
335 points by Improvement | 240 comments
Hypertext news article reporting on Duolingo's CEO attempting to walk back his comments about the company becoming AI-first.
Googler... ex-Googler(nerdy.dev)
836 points by namukang | 747 comments
Personal blog post by Adam Argyle announcing his role at Google was eliminated and sharing his sadness and anger about the layoff.
Has the decline of knowledge work begun?(nytimes.com)
351 points by pseudolus | 615 comments
New York Times article on white-collar layoffs and whether knowledge work is in decline; the page loaded only a captcha.
The Burnout Machine(unionize.fyi)
661 points by flxfxp | 506 comments
An essay originally published in 2600 Hacker Quarterly arguing that tech industry burnout, Agile pressure, and layoffs make a case for unionizing tech workers.
A Letter to the American People(18f.org)
677 points by erentz | 255 comments
An open letter from former 18F employees announcing the March 2025 termination of all staff at the GSA civic tech unit and arguing against its elimination.
GSA Eliminates 18F(nextgov.com)
412 points by patcon | 331 comments
Nextgov/FCW news article reporting that the General Services Administration has eliminated 18F, its in-house digital services consultancy.
Firing programmers for AI is a mistake(defragzone.substack.com)
672 points by frag | 773 comments
A Substack essay arguing that replacing programmers with AI is a mistake; the captured page shows a Substack error message instead of the article.
A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work(mertbulan.com)
901 points by mertbio | 827 comments
Personal blog post by Mert Bulan reflecting, a year later, on how being laid off changed his relationship with work.
Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction(blog.dropbox.com)
405 points by mfiguiere | 702 comments
Dropbox company blog post from CEO Drew Houston announcing a 20% reduction of its global workforce.
CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'(semafor.com)
506 points by everybodyknows | 256 comments
Semafor article in which former CrowdStrike employees describe rising technical errors and weak quality control before the July 2024 global outage.
X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum(fortune.com)
402 points by pzmarzly | 319 comments
Fortune article reporting that X was ordered to pay €550,000 to an Irish employee fired for not replying to Elon Musk's 'extremely hardcore' yes-or-resign ultimatum.
Panic at the Job Market(matt.sh)
1573 points by speckx | 1374 comments
A long personal essay by Matt Stancliff on the state of the tech job market, covering job openings vs. interest rates, company structures, and getting hired.
Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship(deepsouthventures.com)
323 points by eightturn | 128 comments
A personal essay on the Deep South Ventures blog about being laid off and unexpectedly becoming an entrepreneur.
Vice website is shutting down(writing.exchange)
757 points by colinprince | 404 comments
A Mastodon post by Ernie Smith sharing an internal memo announcing that Vice will stop publishing content on vice.com and shift to a studio model.
The Layoff(xeiaso.net)
381 points by signa11 | 141 comments
A personal blog post by Xe Iaso titled "The Layoff," published February 2024, reflecting on being laid off from a tech job.
Mourning Google(tbray.org)
387 points by cdme | 317 comments
Tim Bray's blog post reflecting on joining Google in 2010 and lamenting how the joy has left the company amid 2024 layoffs.
FAQ on Leaving Google(social.clawhammer.net)
350 points by mrled | 210 comments
Ben Collins-Sussman's personal blog FAQ explaining his layoff from Google after 18 years as an Engineering Director and reflecting on mass tech layoffs.
Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024(techcrunch.com)
336 points by mfiguiere | 257 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Pixar will undergo layoffs in 2024 as Disney pushes toward streaming profitability.
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees(theverge.com)
361 points by minimaxir | 288 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Discord is laying off 17 percent of its employees.
Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions(nytimes.com)
765 points by gumby | 894 comments
New York Times article reporting that Google laid off hundreds of employees in engineering and other divisions as part of cost-cutting.
Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff(bloomberg.com)
329 points by MurizS | 302 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that Amazon-owned Twitch will cut about 500 employees, roughly 35% of its staff, to stem losses.
Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling(geekwire.com)
323 points by webmaven | 294 comments
GeekWire opinion article arguing that Hasbro's layoffs at Wizards of the Coast are baffling and could cause a brain drain.
Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%(newsroom.spotify.com)
517 points by filleokus | 1022 comments
Spotify newsroom post by CEO Daniel Ek announcing December 2023 organizational changes, including a roughly 17% reduction in total headcount.
I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans(businessinsider.com)
464 points by cebert | 404 comments
Business Insider first-person essay by a former Amazon HR employee describing the company's PIP practices and quitting after being put on one.
The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?(morethanmoore.substack.com)
379 points by klelatti | 288 comments
Ian Cutress's More Than Moore Substack post reporting on major changes at RISC-V company SiFive, based on multiple sources.
Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off(404media.co)
520 points by mstep | 412 comments
404 Media news article reporting that Bandcamp's entire union bargaining team was laid off after Songtradr acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games.
About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off(theverge.com)
567 points by donohoe | 524 comments
The Verge reports that about half of Bandcamp's staff were laid off after Songtradr acquired the music platform from Epic Games.
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees(npr.org)
341 points by cebert | 285 comments
NPR business article from October 16, 2023 reporting that LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees.
Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters(twitter.com)
321 points by lopkeny12ko | 418 comments
Tweet by Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen announcing the company is rescinding signed offer letters for incoming hires amid a hiring freeze.
Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
552 points by imadkhan | 774 comments
Ask HN thread where a laid-off front-end developer asks whether the tech job market is bad after months of applications yielding one interview.
At this company, we are family(pboyd.io)
451 points by dharmit | 255 comments
A satirical blog post written as a parent's layoff-style letter terminating a child's family membership, mocking companies that call themselves a family.
Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI(thedeepdive.ca)
331 points by notRobot | 414 comments
News article reporting a Shopify employee broke an NDA to claim the company is quietly replacing laid-off workers with AI.
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
817 points by baron816 | 462 comments
A Tell HN discussion thread reporting that nearly all of Evernote's remaining staff were laid off after Bending Spoons took over operations and raised prices.
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers(washingtonpost.com)
341 points by supportengineer | 338 comments
Washington Post article reporting that National Geographic laid off its last remaining staff writers amid digital-era struggles.
Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff(blog.dropbox.com)
347 points by doomleika | 324 comments
Dropbox blog post from CEO Drew Houston announcing a cut of about 16% of its global workforce, roughly 500 employees.
BuzzFeed News is shutting down(thedailybeast.com)
391 points by jbegley | 227 comments
Daily Beast news article reporting that BuzzFeed News is shutting down.
Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta(nytimes.com)
524 points by pretext | 726 comments
New York Times article on how mass layoffs and absent leadership have created a morale crisis among Meta employees; the capture shows a Google sign-in page.
I worked at Google for -10 days(andgein.ru)
541 points by vanburen | 321 comments
Personal blog post recounting how the author was laid off from Google after a long 2022 hiring process, before ever starting the job.