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 Google - 12000 laid off - jan 20th 2023
Microsoft - 10000 laid off - jan 18th 2023
Amazon - 18000 laid off - jan 4th 2023
Salesforce - 8000 laid off - jan 4th 2023
Facebook - 11000 laid off - nov 9th 2023 
 I knew you had the power to predict the future of Bitcoin... but also future of Facebook layoffs... my God Matt, I'm impressed 🫡 
 Looks like the growth stocks, and stay-at-home stock companies are cutting like crazy, according to this tracker its already at 55 970 layoffs and counting, I wonder how this ripples into the rental market, auto loan and mortgage market thats a lot of people who cant pay bills
[Layoffs.fyi](https://layoffs.fyi/) 
 Maybe Twitter wasn’t so wrong banning “learn to code” 🤔 maybe should change to “learn to plumb” 
 This companies are still growing, not so much as shareholders would like, so let's fire people now that everyone is doing and let's shit on the people that built our platforms. Big tech was for many the dreamed job 😔 
 US Federal Government - 3,500,000 laid off - Jan 3rd 2029 
 Soon 
 This is something that can have potentially devastating consequences by constraining future pipelines and leaving the industry in a multi generational gap of staff & principals a couple of decades down.
Obv not good for the long term health of innovation. 
 i feel bad for these people, but i've been in this position before. albeit a much smaller scale. companies scale at paces they can't support and this is what happens.
 
 I mean Google grew from 100,000 to 160,000 in the last 4 years... 
 Right after chat gpt goes mainstream... Coincidence? 
 The mother of all recessions is underway. And they will sadly only do really stupid stuff to fix it, and instead make it worse/prevent a recovery. God help us! 
 Not true, many of jobs and businesses in the Bitcoin space were lost in the last three months. 
 Didn't see a lot about this, anywhere I can see the impact across companies? 
 Didn't see a lot about this, anywhere I can see the impact across companies? 
 What’s the tl;dr on Strike? 
 I work for a co that’s always looking for devs, infrastructure architects, sme of cloud. I will share info if you know anyone interested and try to help 
 That's not a great sign laying off builders