Business Big Tech Layoffs Megathread - Techbros... we got too cocky...

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Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.

For those who want a QRD:


Just this week we've had these going on:

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But it's not just Big Tech, the vidya industry is also cleaning house bigly:

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All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.
 
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The Hardest R said:
They’re the 30-year old boomer meme personified. They just want to noodle around on occasion playing as their favorite sportsball team. If they can do that a handful of times per year, they’re happy enough with the game.
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Yup. A huge portion of the audience doesn't really spend much beyond the purchase price of the game itself, and "Its the exact same game just with some roster changes" is just a normal sports season to them. Even if they're dropping $15-$20 every month or so on small microtransactions, playing the game for a year is in the same cost range as going to 2-3 IRL games over the same year, and comparable to PPV/Cable Sub viewing as well.

Its a crazy price point for people who approach gaming as videogame players first and sports fans second, who have this knowledge of the art of the possible, but if you're just a sports fan, its pretty much in line with the cost of other reasonable things you'd be doing anyway.
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
It is kind of fascinating to see EA just completely catch fire after a single one of their sports games has a big miss. Just wait until the 2026 ones drop, and have to start complying with the new EU rules on monetization behaviors, they're gonna lose significant revenue either from people skipping the game, or spending less since they're not being fucked with at every corner in the same way.
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EA also just lost the license to WRC, and with the announced 3 new Kits for The Sims 4 receiving rather lukewarm reception, and The Sims 4 cashcow being a ticking timebomb because literal game-breaking bugs like save game corruption are becoming more and more common and harder for EA to ignore and cover up, money seems to be getting tighter at EA.
 
Terrifik said:
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same verse as first low wage workers.
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Regardless of tariffs or not, the gaming companies will put the prices up. GTA 6 is going to be $100 and they said as much before the US election.

I don't think any products should be exempt from tariffs. If Sony, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon have been profiting from low wage, chinese child slave labour, then you deserve to suffer the consequences.
Those who live by the sword, will surely also die.
 
This is the story of one layoff.

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet​

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AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says Shawn K, an engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.
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  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has predicted that AI will be doing all coding tasks by next year—but an existential crisis is already hitting some software engineers. One man who lost his job last year has had to turn to living in an RV trailer, DoorDashing and selling his household items on eBay to make ends meet, as his once $150k salary has turned to dust.
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Tech layoffs are nothing new for Shawn K (his full legal last name is one letter).

The software engineer first lost his job after the 2008 financial crisis and then again during the pandemic, but on both occasions, he was back on his feet just a few months later.



However, when K was given the pink slip last April he quickly realized this time was different: AI’s revolution of the tech industry was playing out right in front of him.

Despite having two decades of experience and a computer science degree, he’s landed less than 10 interviews from the 800 applications he’s sent out. Worse yet, some of those few interviews have been with an AI agent instead of a human.

“I feel super invisible,” K tells Fortune. “I feel unseen. I feel like I'm filtered out before a human is even in the chain.”

And while fears about AI replacing jobs have been around for years, the 42-year-old thinks his experience is only likely the beginning of a “social and economic disaster tidal wave.”



“The Great Displacement is already well underway,” he recently wrote on his Substack.
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Making ends meet with DoorDash—he says it's a fate coming for 'basically everyone'​

K’s last job was working at a company focused on the metaverse—an area that was predicted to be the next great thing, only to be overshadowed in part by the rise of ChatGPT.
Now living in a small RV trailer in central New York with no lead on a new tech job, K’s had to turn to creative strategies to make ends meet, and try to replace a fraction of his former $150,000 salary.
In between searching incessantly for new jobs, checking his empty email inbox, and researching the latest AI news, he delivers DoorDash orders, like Buffalo Wild Wings to a local Holiday Inn, and sells random household items on eBay, like an old laptop. In total, it only adds to a few hundred bucks.


He’s also considered going back to school for a tech certificate—or even to obtain his CDL trucking license—but both were scratched off his list due to their hefty financial barrier to entry.

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K’s reality may shock some, considering that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has consistently labeled software engineering as one of the fastest growing fields, but stories like his may soon become all more common.

Earlier this year, the CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei predicted that more software jobs will soon go by the wayside. By September, he said AI will be writing 90% of the code; moreover, “in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” he tells the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2024, over 150,000 tech workers lost their jobs, and so far in 2025, that number has reached over 50,000, according to Layoffs.fyi. “It’s coming for basically everyone in due time, and we are already overdue for proposing any real solution in society to heading off the worst of these effects,” K wrote.

“The discussion of AI job replacement in the mainstream is still viewed as something coming in the vague future rather than something that’s already underway.”

Losing his job isn’t the only issue​

Despite being unemployed for over a year, K still hasn’t lost hope, nor is he necessarily mad at AI for replacing him and still calls himself an “AI maximalist.”

"If AI really legitimately can do a better job than me, I'm not gonna sit here and feel bad about, oh, it replaced me and it doesn't have the human touch,” K says.



What’s frustrating, he adds, is that companies are using AI to save money by cutting talent—rather than leveraging its power and embracing cyborg workers.

“I think there's this problem where people are stuck in the old world business mindset of, well, if I can do the same work that 10 developers were doing with one developer, let's just cut the developer team instead of saying, oh, well, we've got a 10 developer team, let's do 1,000x the work that we were doing before,” K says.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com
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K’s last job was working at a company focused on the metaverse—an area that was predicted to be the next great thing, only to be overshadowed in part by the rise of ChatGPT.
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Got to love how it's always the one buried line revealing the actual reason why. $150k for a metaverse coding job? Hint for K: it ain't AI which led to this outcome.
 
I hate it to break it to these guys but if you’re getting replaced by AI you weren’t pulling your weight to begin with.

If a joiner is replaced by a new hammer then he wasn’t much of a joiner to begin with.
 
Terrifik said:
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purge dance party time
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rip to ips & again another stone for tencent
Insider Gaming has learned that Yves Guillemot’s son, Charlie Guillemot will be returning to the company following his departure in 2021.

According to the internal email sent to Insider Gaming, Charlie Guillemot will be re-joining the company to join forces with Marie-Sophie de Waubert to lead the company’s Transformation Committee.

The committee, which consists of 10 members is said to “guide the evolution of our [Ubisoft’s] brands and studios over the next 100 days”, the email reads.

It’s a move that has been met with criticism from employees, who tell Insider Gaming that the majority of the members within the Committee are the one’s responsible for Ubisoft’s current state.

Charlie Guillemot in particular got his fair share of criticism from employees, who questioned his qualifications and the Guiellmot’s capabilities on leading Ubisoft to a brighter future.

Charlie co-led Ubisoft Owlient with Rémi Pellerin since 2014, but both left Ubisoft in 2021 to “pursue new opportunities”, which including being the CEO of a web3 gaming company called Unagi.

However, within the company Charlie was also heavily criticised for being responsible for one of Ubisoft’s being controversies in 2020, where the company used Black Lives Matter imagery in association with an in-game terrorist organization for the mobile game “Elite Squad”.

In the internal email sent to staff, it was said that Charlie Guillemot takes “full responsibility” for the oversight.

Ubisoft’s new Transformative Committee members consists of:

Alain Corre
Cécile Russeil
Charlie Guillemot
Christophe Derennes
Jean Guesdon
Marie-Sophie de Waubert
Michaël Montaner
Nicolas Rioux
Sébastien Froidefond
Stéphanie Perotti
Earlier this year, Ubisoft announced a new subsidiary with Tencent at a 4.3 billion euro valuation. The deal will see some of Ubisoft’s biggest IPs, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six go from Ubisoft to the new subsidiary. In addition, studios including Montréal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Barcelona, and Sofia will move over.

So far, Ubisoft employee’s have been left fairly in the dark about what the new subsidiary actually means, with Yves Guillemot himself saying in an internal memo that there’s not really a plan for the future as “we need to take the time to figure this out”.

Ubisoft was contacted before publication, but has not yet commented. Should one be received, this article will be updated.

UPDATE – Ubisoft has issued the following statement:

“With the recent announcement to create a new subsidiary, Ubisoft is undertaking a transformation of its entire organization. Charlie Guillemot has rejoined Ubisoft and is on the internal Transformation Committee that will recommend to the Executive Committee a new operating model designed to ensure Ubisoft’s long-term success.”
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Boy I can’t wait until these companies depend on AI, fail at it, and then demand the taxpayer bail them out.
 
AI is a cover to remove useless DEI hires. Of course, none of these companies can say they're cutting the fat and sacking the dead-weight niggers, faggots and trannies. Instead, they say the job can be done by AI.

Like @FedPostalService says, if you're replaced by AI, you were useless anyway and we all know DEI hires are as much use as Steven Hawking in a high jump competition.
 
The Hardest R said:
Boy I can’t wait until these companies depend on AI, fail at it, and then demand the taxpayer bail them out.
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The only companies that you can say "depend on it" are new startups from the past 2 years that the government doesn't give a shit about, none of them are getting a bailout. Executives will probably take as much investor money they can and run though.
 
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