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• The Demoralization is just Beginning

  > These two hot takes at the top of the essay really undermines everything else the author might say in the article and brings into question how serious and critical their thinking is. Does it though... If anything, the numbers prove him right: https://layoffs.fyi/ > Several comments here against the article talk about the Chinese economy problems and this article in this morning’s BBC is a pretty good summary of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

  > Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. ...and? This is such a common thing in tech we have entire websites built around it to track the layoffs.[0] In fact, using that site you can see in February (only 20 days so far) we've had 10,950 tech workers laid off. Expanding it further, in 2024 alone there were over 152,000 tech workers laid off. 2023? Only a mere 264,000 layoffs.... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Job Trends of HN Who is hiring?

  Somewhat correlates with the Layoffs.fyi trends [1][2]. Extreme lack of layoffs Q3 2020 to Q1 2022. Big rise through 2024, peaking at Q1 2023 and then slowly declining. Mostly tapered off to 2021 and 2022 levels near the start 2025. [1] https://layoffs.fyi [2] [chart] "Tech layoffs since Covid-19",... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• H1B Leaderboard

  Consider using https://layoffs.fyi/ of layoff data. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Unconventional ways to find a software engineering job

  With the job market for software devs in a lull and layoffs becoming more and more common, it’s more difficult to get hired these days. I recently had to find a job in this market myself, and it was a challenge. Here are some of the things that helped me. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Intel to cut 15% of headcount, reports quarterly guidance miss

  Whew. That's a lot of jobs. Currently https://layoffs.fyi/ counts 380 tech companies w/ layoffs 109,297 employees laid off from 380 tech companies this year. Though I wonder what counts as a "tech job". For example, is the sales team included? - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Panic at the Tech Job Market

  Section 174 went into effect in 2022 and it seems to have had massive ramifications based on the data: https://layoffs.fyi/ I can't see how the US can maintain a healthy tech sector with this still in place. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

  Google did large layoffs in Jan 2023 and Jan 2024, and smaller rolling layoffs continue, including layoffs in May 2024. https://layoffs.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Job Security is a Myth: Three Lessons on Layoffs

  Based on layoffs.fyi, 165,269 tech employees lost their job in 2022, 263,180 in 2023, and 89,193 in 2024 until 2024. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

  To add to this thread -> https://layoffs.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Layoffs in Tech & How To Workaround it

  Layoffs.fyi → A more international approach, but similar to Teamlyzer. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Death to the invincible engineer

  In the current job market where an average software engineer stays just 2 years at a single company, where remote work and freelancing lead to engineers having 2 or 3 full-time positions at the same time, and companies are firing thousands of software engineers with little to no notice, it’s easy to enter the me against the world mentality. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Has hiring slowed down lately?

  The market is in the toilet right now: https://layoffs.fyi/ (not my site fyi). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: I have applied to 1000 jobs from Sep. 2023 is it that bad?

  Some numbers for context/sense of foreboding: https://layoffs.fyi/ 159 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 41793 employees laid off in 2024 (as of 8:26 AM PST February 20, 2024). I have been applying on and off for quite some time with no success (I would stop because I would just get discouraged after a while). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Tech companies axe 34,000 jobs since start of year in pivot to AI

  The “in pivot to AI” part is speculation: https://layoffs.fyi/ says 141 tech companies laid off 34,250 in 2024. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce

  It's not as bad as last year, but if you look at the layoff.fyi graph that goes back further (https://layoffs.fyi/#tabs_desc_471_2 ), I remember feeling that around September of last year that the huge amount of layoffs from late 22/early 23 had stabilized: a lot of my dev colleagues on LinkedIn that were previously laid off had found new jobs (but non-IC-eng roles definitely didn't fare as well), and there were... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far

  I usually get this kind of data from https://layoffs.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce

  Layoffs are on the menu again. You can track layoffs through https://layoffs.fyi. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

  There are typically crowdsourced spreadsheets available from https://layoffs.fyi that cover title, etc. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Bosch aims to cut 1,200 jobs in software division by end 2026

  How does one reconcile the numerous tech layoffs[0] with the fact that "US Jobless Claims Plunge to 187,000, Lowest Since September 2022"[1]? Is non-tech sector hiring making up for the tech losses? [0]https://layoffs.fyi/ [1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-jobless-claims-plunge-to-187000-lowest-since-september-2022/ar-AA1nbt51. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What is the reason for recent tech layoffs

  Supposed "right sizing" due to economic factors such as interest rates and the rapid hiring that's happened over the last few years. You can track them on https://layoffs.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago