Seattle-based data storage provider Qumulo laid off about 80 employees Wednesday, or roughly 19% of its staff, in the latest round of job cuts affecting tech companies. In a memo… Read More
These days, it might be easier for early-stage startups to recruit top tech talent. That was one of a few silver linings related to the slowdown in the economy highlighted… Read More
Esper, a Seattle-based startup that operates a DevOps platform for customers that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices, has laid off 12% of its staff. The company confirmed the cuts… Read More
SAP has laid off employees based in the Pacific Northwest as part of what the tech giant describes as a “restructuring program” related to its product engineering organization that includes… Read More
Seattle real estate company Redfin announced Tuesday that it is cutting about 8% of its workforce, acknowledging that a housing downturn in the U.S. is hitting the company hard. The… Read More
Over the past year, home repair marketplace startup Keepe tripled its enterprise customer base and grew work order volume by 200%. Yet the Seattle company recently laid off employees as… Read More
Convoy laid off 7% of its staff Thursday, becoming the latest tech company to slash headcount amid an uncertain economic environment. A spokesperson for the Seattle trucking marketplace startup confirmed… Read More
Dutchie, a Bend, Ore.-based software startup that serves cannabis retailers, has laid off 8% of its workforce. GeekWire confirmed the cuts with a Dutchie spokesperson. The company employs more than… Read More
Concerns about an economic slowdown, fueled by factors including inflation and a declining stock market, are starting to be felt by individual tech job seekers as some companies start to… Read More
Rad Power Bikes is slashing 100 jobs from its 725-person workforce as part of what the Seattle e-bike business describes as a restructuring. The cuts affect employees who helped power… Read More
Zillow Group plans to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of the 2,000 company employees who will lose their jobs following the decision this week to shut… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based Xevo has laid off 97 workers, according to a new filing with the state of Washington. The company, acquired by global automotive giant Lear in 2019, develops connected-car… Read More
Construction giant Katerra, which has raised more than $2 billion in venture capital, is shutting down, according to a report from The Information. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification was… Read More
Seattle-based startup Boundless laid off four employees and asked 27 workers to relocate to Las Vegas as part of what CEO Xiao Wang described as a restructuring. The online immigration… Read More
Casual game maker DoubleDown Interactive this week laid off 55 employees at its Seattle office. The company said the cuts mostly affected engineering and product development functions. They were made… Read More
Igneous, a Seattle startup that helps companies manage unstructured data across a variety of systems, has laid off staff. A spokesperson declined to provide specific details about the number of… Read More
Big Fish Games on Tuesday laid off approximately 250 people as part of a substantial restructuring at the 18-year-old gaming Seattle company. Big Fish employs more than 600 employees according… Read More
Lighter Capital cut half of its workforce in another round of layoffs. The Seattle-based “alternative VC” firm recently laid off 22 people, a company spokesperson confirmed. There are 23 employees… Read More
Microsoft is further cutting back its MSN team amid a controversial shift to automation and AI for content decisions previously left to human editors. After previously eliminating dozens of MSN… Read More
Speaker-maker Sonos, which has a large presence in downtown Seattle, announced Tuesday that it is cutting 12 percent of its global workforce due to uncertainty and challenges stemming from the… Read More
Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based makers of pop culture figurines and other merchandise, is cutting its workforce by about 250 employees. According to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange… Read More
Tech-powered general contracting platform Pro.com laid off 52 employees as the ongoing pandemic impacts home construction. Pro.com CEO Matt Williams confirmed the job cuts, which were first revealed in a WARN… Read More
Uber has cut 25% of its global workforce over the past two weeks after slashing another 3,000 jobs today. What do the Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber layoffs mean for Seattle… Read More
The coronavirus has left us awash in numbers about infections and deaths, layoffs and closed businesses. The recently launched $1k Project is a reminder of the people behind the statistics,… Read More
Silicon Valley engineering outposts have added an interesting dynamic to Seattle’s burgeoning tech community over the past 15 years. More than 125 of these centers now operate from Bellevue to… Read More
Document engineering startup Docugami has doubled its team to 20 people since raising a $10 million funding round in early February. Jean Paoli, the company’s CEO and co-founder, has met… Read More
Lighter Capital laid off 22% of its workforce primarily in sales and marketing, GeekWire has learned, as it looks to curb expenses amid the global pandemic. The cuts are part… Read More
ExtraHop laid off an undisclosed number of employees on Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff amid the ongoing economic crisis. “On Wednesday, April 22,… Read More
RealSelf is the latest tech startup to cut staff as the COVID-19 crisis forces businesses across various industries to slash expenses in order to survive. The company did not say… Read More
For the past few weeks, GeekWire has been chronicling the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Seattle tech community and the world, including job cuts at companies seeking… Read More