LinkedIn has laid off about 280 employees across a few cities in California. This round of layoffs has affected 159 employees in Mountain View, 60 in San Francisco, 23 in Sunnyvale, 11 in Carpinteria and 28 employees working remotely from California.
This trimming exercise has rendered many software engineers, as well as a few machine-learning specialists, and some working on devops and systems infrastructure, say reports. As per a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing, product managers, designers, deal-desk strategists and some others have also been let go.
LinkedIn, the social networking platform for professionals is owned by Microsoft, and the latter has been gearing to trim its workforce . Microsoft has been trying to streamline its operations by eliminating management hierarchies, cutting costs and restructuring. Reorganisation of certain internal teams has been underway for a while. It was reported that this exercise will come at the cost of what is probably the biggest round of job cuts at the company in over two years. The company is reportedly letting go three per cent of its global workforce. That means about 6,000 employees may be rendered jobless in various departments. Around 14 May 2025, media reports had said that this workforce trimming exercise at Microsoft would not spare LinkedIn either. And sure enough, the cuts have come.
The social-media company is apparently slower compared to other products in terms of growth.