Microsoft’s Mass Layoffs Affected at Least 800 in Software Engineering, According to New Documents

Microsoft began laying off around 3% of its workforce on Tuesday, cutting more than 6,000 roles. The tech giant reportedly said the new cuts would affect all locations and levels, including LinkedIn and Xbox, but the focus was on reducing managers.

Now, documents seen by Bloomberg suggest that about one-third of the total roles cut were at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington, and of the roughly 2,000 layoffs there, the most eliminations (817) were in the software engineering job category. It’s more than double the cuts of the next category, product management (373).

Related: AI Is Writing About 30% of Code at Microsoft and Google. Here’s What It Means for Software

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