Recent tech industry job cuts — company, scale, and region — so you can read the market before you plan your next move.
Meta informed employees that around 8,000 workers — nearly 10% of its global workforce — would need to leave by May 20, 2026.
Source: Great Andhra →Block (led by Jack Dorsey) announced plans to cut about 1,100 positions as part of a restructuring toward AI-driven automation of internal work.
Source: Gulf News →Oracle sent termination notices to employees across global offices, reportedly under pressure from heavy AI infrastructure spending and rising AI-related debt.
Source: Great Andhra →TCS, India's largest IT services exporter, began a 2% workforce reduction — around 12,000 jobs — targeting middle and senior management amid slower demand.
Source: YTC Ventures →Amazon eliminated around 16,000 corporate roles globally in January 2026 — its second major round since cutting roughly 14,000 jobs in October 2025 — citing efforts to reduce bureaucracy.
Source: AOL / Great Andhra →Based on tracked events on this page — not a full industry census, but a real read on what's showing up in the news right now.
You can't control industry cycles — but you can control how ready you are for one.
Update it every few months, even when you're not looking — it's far easier to add a recent win than to reconstruct six months of work from memory the week you need it.
An emergency fund changes a layoff from a crisis into an inconvenience — it buys you time to find the right next role instead of the first one.
The strongest referrals come from relationships built over time, not a flurry of messages sent the week after a layoff. A few genuine check-ins a month go a long way.
Being the only person who knows one tool is a risk, not job security. Round out adjacent skills so you're valuable across more of a team's needs, not just one narrow slice.
Keep a running note of what you shipped, the metrics behind it, and what you learned. It becomes your resume bullets and interview stories later — with none of the memory gaps.
Check in on this periodically, not just during a job search — knowing where you stand makes it much easier to negotiate confidently if a transition is ever forced on you.