Tech companies laying off now, and how developers can check their own
A dated list of cuts from late October and early November 2026, plus a five-minute routine for checking one employer with trackers, memos and WARN notices.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
3 min read
Tech companies laying off staff in the last few weeks include Squarespace, eBay, Netflix, Automattic, Electronic Arts and Amazon's devices unit, while Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees. Below is a dated snapshot as of November 4, 2026, followed by a short routine for checking whether one particular employer, maybe yours or one you are interviewing with, has been cutting.
Who has announced cuts lately
| Company | What was reported | When | Where it was reported |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace | About 19% of staff, around 300 people | Nov 2 | TechCrunch |
| Amazon | About 250 jobs in its devices unit | Oct 28 | Reuters, via Layoffs.fyi |
| eBay | About 1,100 roles, 9% of staff | Oct 21 | Reuters, via Layoffs.fyi and Crunchbase News |
| Automattic | Layoffs begun, no count given | Oct 21 | TechCrunch |
| Netflix | About 1,000 staff | Oct 14 | TechCrunch |
| Electronic Arts | A global cut of unclear size, including the closure of BioWare's Edmonton studio | By Oct 28 | Crunchbase News |
| Microsoft | Voluntary buyouts offered to about 60,000 people, not a layoff | Late October | Crunchbase News |
Crunchbase News also added Carbon Robotics, Headspace, Loop, PandaDoc, Qualcomm, SolarEdge Technologies, Sucker Punch Productions and Vermont Information Processing in its latest update, mostly without a headcount.
For scale, the pace is well below the spring. Layoffs.fyi logged about 6,000 tech job losses across 31 layoffs in October 2026, against more than 24,000 in each of May and June.
How to check one company in five minutes
- Search its company page on Layoffs.fyi. Each company has a page at layoffs.fyi/company/ followed by its name, listing every recorded cut with a date, a headcount where known, and a link to the report it came from.
- Scan TechCrunch's layoffs page. TechCrunch's layoffs tag lists its stories newest first, which is the fastest way to catch something from this week.
- Read the company's own words. Big cuts often come with a public post, such as Amazon's "Update on our organization" or Cisco's "Our Path Forward." Annual and quarterly reports also show headcount, which is how Oracle's and Dell's 2026 reductions became public.
- Check the state WARN list for the office. Under the federal WARN Act, employers with 100 or more full-time employees must give 60 days' notice before a mass layoff or plant closing, and many states post those notices online. If the office you care about is in such a state, a notice there is the most official signal you can get.
- Ask people who left. Former colleagues and people in your network can often say which teams were hit, which no tracker records. If you are interviewing, it is also fair to ask the hiring manager how recent cuts touched the team you would join.
Two limits to keep in mind. Trackers only list cuts that were reported or announced, so a quiet round of small cuts can go unrecorded; Layoffs.fyi calls its totals a likely undercount. And a buyout offer, like Microsoft's, is not a layoff, even if it ends up shrinking the team.
Where TechTwitter IO fits
Checking one company is a job for the sources above. Following the whole industry without dreading it is where TechTwitter IO comes in, and it is the daily read we recommend for developers. It is a free satirical newspaper of tech Twitter with a front page, The Timeline, Launches, an Incident Report and a Fun & Games page with Twordle, Connections and a buzzword Jumble. Layoffs show up as weather in its Discourse Forecast, and real items, like its coverage of Microsoft's buyout offer, credit the outlet that reported them.
It is satire, and the footer says that people, posts and quotes without a source link are invented. Keep it in a pinned tab for the morning, and open the tracker when you need a fact.