Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its… Read More
Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the… Read More
Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based travel giant… Read More
T-Mobile’s decision to lay off nearly 5,000 employees will impact 401 workers in Bellevue, Wash. CEO Mike Sievert last week announced the cuts in a memo to employees. The details… Read More
Microsoft made another 559 job cuts in the Seattle region on Monday, according to a filing with the state Employment Security Department (ESD), bringing the regional total to 2,743 layoffs… Read More
Voicebox Technologies, which provides natural-language understanding technology for Samsung devices including the discontinued Galaxy Note 7, is cutting a significant portion of its workforce, citing “a combination of unforeseen circumstances.” The… Read More
Xerox has notified all 325 employees at its Redmond, Wash., facility that their jobs will be cut by the beginning of May this year, the company confirmed today. The Redmond office currently houses… Read More
Nordstrom cut approximately 120 jobs on its technology team this week, the company said this morning, disclosing a specific number for the first time and confirming news first reported by GeekWire yesterday. Over the past seven… Read More
Microsoft this morning confirmed that it will be cutting 7,800 additional jobs, primarily in its Windows Phone business, and taking a $7.6 billion charge related to its acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has cut 33 jobs in its IT department, the foundation confirmed today in response to an inquiry from GeekWire. “The foundation’s growth and the changing… Read More
The layoffs quietly made by Microsoft last week will be the “last of the anticipated broad cuts” from the restructuring announced last year, the company says. Microsoft’s latest cuts, first… Read More
Microsoft this morning cut an additional 3,000 jobs from its workforce around the world, saying it has now completed almost all of the 18,000 job cuts that were announced by CEO… Read More
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A day after announcing plans to cut 900 jobs as part of a restructuring, T-Mobile USA this afternoon issued a clarification to say that it will also be adding 550… Read More
Dendreon, one of the great hopes of Seattle’s biotech industry, today reduced its financial projections for the year and said it will be cutting jobs amid lower-than-expected sales of its… Read More