Microsoft-owned, AI-powered developer platform GitHub has sacked its entire engineering team operating in India. This has affected nearly 100 employees.
Gergely Orosz, Tech writer has shared the information through a Tweet, “What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lower priority stuff.”
“This layoff comes amidst the February layoffs announced. The strange thing is: why is India when the cost of labor is much cheaper than eg US and likely cheaper than EU? Perhaps the India team *was* not at the critical size”, his tweet added.
What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 28, 2023
Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lower priority stuff. My thoughts:
Last month, the company announced that it will cut 10 percent of its workforce due to cut costs measures. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke sent an email to employees informing the employees about the layoffs.
The email read, “We are announcing a number of difficult decisions, including saying goodbye to some Hubbers and enacting new budgetary realignments, designed to protect the short-term health of our business while also granting us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy.”
“The age of AI has started and we have been leading this change with GitHub Copilot, our most successful product launch to date. We have an enormous opportunity to build an integrated, AI-powered GitHub with urgency,” the email added.
GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 94 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies.
With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code. Additionally, the company reportedly has a little over 3,000 employees globally before the layoffs.
Microsoft Layoffs 559 Employees As Seattle-Area Job Cuts Top 2,700
Additionally, according to reports Microsoft has laid off 559 employees from Bellevue and Redmond in Washington state in the US.
The recent layoff has summed to over 2,700 job cuts in the area by the company. The company in February announced a prior round of layoffs in which 617 employees in Redmond, Bellevue, and Issaquah.
The reports have suggested that the layoffs, announced by the Washington State Employment Security Department has hit Microsoft’s security operations.
