Articles about layoffs

Uber laying off 93 Washington state workers, hitting engineer and management roles at Seattle office

The cuts hit technical roles particularly hard, with position titles including software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and a Seattle-based director of engineering. Read More

Qualtrics cut 117 jobs tied to Seattle headquarters, new filing shows

A new state filing shows Qualtrics is cutting 117 jobs tied to its Seattle headquarters, the first public figure showing the regional impact of layoffs the experience management software company made globally two weeks ago. Read More

Amazon lays off 121 workers across corporate and fulfillment jobs in Washington state

The largest single concentration of cuts is at the SEA106 building in Bellevue, where 49 employees — ranging from entry-level software development engineers and applied scientists to a vice president of legal and senior software managers — were notified. Read More

T-Mobile to cut 77 jobs in Washington state, impacting corporate and retail positions

The workforce reductions span frontline, regional, and corporate roles, eliminating positions ranging from retail mobile experts and account care specialists to principal systems architects and senior directors at the wireless carrier. Read More

Starbucks lays off 224 workers tied to Seattle HQ, including tech roles, as restructuring winds down

A new state filing shows Starbucks is cutting 224 more jobs tied to its Seattle headquarters, including technology positions and roles in the group that designs and builds its coffeehouses. The company says the layoffs complete restructuring work announced earlier this year rather than starting a new round of cuts. Read More

Qualtrics cuts jobs in Seattle, Utah and overseas as it absorbs $6.75B acquisition

Qualtrics laid off employees across Seattle, Provo and international offices Wednesday, three months after closing its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta. The company declined to disclose how many jobs were cut, but a WARN notice reviewed by GeekWire indicates at least 50 cuts were made at its Seattle headquarters. Read More

Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup

Expedia Group is parting ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents as it reorganizes its product and technology organization around AI, according to an internal memo obtained by GeekWire. The memo from the company’s product and technology chiefs also names five leaders who were promoted. Read More

TikTok cuts 75 jobs in Seattle area, hitting e-commerce teams

TikTok is laying off 75 workers in Bellevue, most of them in TikTok Shop and Global E-Commerce roles, according to a notice filed with Washington state. It’s part of a steady stream of tech layoffs this year in the Seattle region. Read More

Tech layoffs hit Seattle housing market as pending sales post sharpest drop in the nation

According to a new report by Redfin, pending home sales in the Seattle area plunged 15.6% year-over-year in July. It’s the sharpest drop among major U.S. metropolitan areas as prospective buyers grapple with steep prices and job insecurity driven by recent tech-sector layoffs. Read More

Salesforce cutting 59 jobs across Seattle and Bellevue offices

Affected positions include software engineers, product management directors, incident commanders, technical support engineers, and leadership roles across marketing and sustainability. Read More

Zillow revenue climbs 18% but layoff costs push company to a loss, amid executive changes

Zillow Group’s second-quarter revenue rose 18% to $772 million, but a $36 million restructuring charge from this week’s layoffs pushed the company to a $4 million net loss. Zillow also expanded CFO Jeremy Hofmann’s role to include chief operating officer and hired a Google litigation executive as its first chief legal and policy officer. Read More

Google to cut 52 employees in Washington state

Google is laying off 52 employees in Washington state, according to a state filing. The job cuts include software engineers, engineering and product managers, mechatronics engineers, UX designers and recruiters located in Kirkland, Redmond and Seattle offices as well as remote employees. Read More

Zillow layoffs hit 91 jobs in Washington state, with senior roles bearing the brunt

A WARN notice filed with Washington state shows Zillow Group is cutting 91 jobs in its home state, a fraction of the more than 500 layoffs announced this week. The list of affected positions is dominated by directors, principals and senior managers. Read More

Zillow cuts more than 500 jobs in its largest layoff of the year

Zillow Group laid off more than 500 employees Tuesday, about 7% of its workforce, one day before it reports second-quarter earnings. It’s the company’s second round of cuts this year. Read More

Amazon tops $3 trillion and Microsoft surges as Wall Street sets aside AI spending fears, for now

Amazon passed $3 trillion in market value for the first time Monday and Microsoft climbed 5%, extending a rally that followed cloud earnings from both companies last week. The two are now the world’s fourth and fifth most valuable companies. Read More

Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues

Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue. Read More

Amazon cuts jobs in AGI group as it puts more focus on customer-facing AI

Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, the group behind its Nova models, as the company sharpens its AI focus toward tools for business customers. The cuts follow a year of leadership turnover in the group and a broader run of reductions since January. Read More

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Microsoft’s reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders

On this week’s show, we’re on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200. Read More

The awkward timing of the Xbox CEO’s new Federal Reserve gig

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was named to co-lead a Federal Reserve task force on jobs and productivity — three days after announcing 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft’s gaming division. The gaming press is having a field day. Read More

Filing shows Amazon cut 57 tech jobs in Washington state in recent weeks

Amazon is cutting 57 jobs in Washington, including roles at the director and senior manager levels. The cuts include 16 software engineers as well as product managers and creative marketing employees working in Seattle and Bellevue offices. Nine remote employees were also let go. Read More

Xbox at a crossroads: 25 years later, Microsoft is done playing around

Microsoft is pressing its Xbox business for growth and stronger profits after 25 years of losses and thin margins. Here’s the math and the strategy behind the reset, with Xbox layoffs expected as soon as next week. Read More

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers

“Microsoft Frontier Company” is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners. Read More

Microsoft set for new round of job cuts next week, spanning Xbox, sales and consulting

Microsoft is preparing another round of layoffs, spanning Xbox, sales and consulting, as it holds down operating costs while pouring more than $100 billion into AI infrastructure. Read More

Amperity hit with layoffs as AI changes the shape of the customer data startup and how it operates

The company, which employs more than 200 globally, did not specify how may jobs were cut, only that “a number of talented people are leaving.” Read More

Filing: Sony cuts 292 jobs at Bungie in Bellevue following end of ‘Destiny 2’ development

Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based creator of the Halo and Destiny video game franchises, was hit by new round of layoffs Wednesday as the Sony-owned studio undergoes a reorganization following the end of development on its long-running online shooter Destiny 2. Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’

Microsoft has spent years subsidizing Xbox rather than profiting from it, CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged this week, as he addressed… Read More

‘This cannot continue’: Microsoft Xbox CEO calls for reset amid reports of looming job cuts

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft’s gaming business will end the fiscal year at about a 3% profit margin, saying years of heavy spending without revenue growth “cannot continue” — as Bloomberg and The Verge reported major job cuts coming next month.
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Expeditors cuts 230 tech jobs in Seattle region, ending decades-long policy against layoffs

The layoffs hit software developers, quality-assurance testers, project managers, business analysts and others across Expeditors’ offices in downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Lynnwood and Federal Way, according to laid-off employees and others with knowledge of the situation. Read More

Zuckerberg’s yacht leaves Seattle’s Lake Union, anchors in Elliott Bay

After several days docked on Lake Union, drawing crowds and hecklers, Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht slipped back through the Ballard Locks and is now anchored in Elliott Bay. Why it’s in Seattle remains unclear. Read More

Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs

The Meta CEO’s 387-foot Launchpad passed through the Ballard Locks toward Lake Union on Tuesday, the same day the company disclosed nearly 1,400 layoffs in Washington state. Read More