https://www.mercurynews.com/tech-job-cuts-totaling-1100-jolt-silicon-valley-east-bay Zume cut 252 positions, including 172 in Santa Clara and 80 in San Francisco; VMWare eliminated 211 jobs in Palo Alto; Shutterfly chopped 153 positions in Redwood City; Intel cut 153 jobs in Santa Clara; Comcast eliminated 127 positions in Livermore; Xilinx shed 123 jobs in San Jose; 23andMe cut 84 jobs in Sunnyvale; and NortonLifeLock jettisoned 59 jobs in Mountain View, the EDD filings show
Many other companies make layoffs, not in the filings/news
Throw down some names and numbers.
Google may be. https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/16/google-vmware-shed-cloud-workers/
And?
Where are the jobs moving? Austin or Canada? Or cost effective third world locales? Edit: changed “cheap” to cost effective as it was offensive to some people and I didn’t mean for it to be interpreted that way.
Wayfair laid-off 550 last Thursday.
Wayfair, we’ve got just what you need... a pink slip.
Not to worry, those companies also have a ton of openings. The same people will get hired. Forced recirculation. Lesson learned from this: always be interviewing. And live below your means.
Truer words could not have been said. As a general rule I make sure to have enough cash to last 1 year if I'm let go. And I start looking at new opportunities 1 year into a job just to see what options are available.
Zume sells pizza and have 252 tech jobs to cut? Jesus I thought this was a 10-20 person operation and an army of cooks/drivers
Right can someone from Zume comment here
zume is working on self driving pizza cooker. you order pizza , they put the ingredients in the oven, oven starts driving to you. it starts cooking about 10 mins before it reaches your place so you can have fresh pizza. i bet the founders dreamt of this while they were high
Zume is literally Sliceline
How many jobs created in the meantime?
Over the 12 months that ended in mid-2019, tech companies in Silicon Valley added 14,100 jobs, which accounts for a jaw-dropping 49 percent of all the jobs added in the region during the same one-year period, according to the 2020 Silicon Valley Index.
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