Anyone impacted/or heard about people impacted by the recent MAANG layoffs?

MAANG layoffs are news recently but almost nothing happening in Japan. Anyone heard something or was impacted?

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  1. Japan is quite resilient to mass layoffs due to strong labor laws. Instead I would assume a longer hiring freeze compared to the west

  2. I think the Japan branches are generally lean(probably due to strong labor laws partially). Main questionable businesses are Western based. To my knowledge all the engineers are overseas except for the ones that need to directly interact with Japanese businesses.

  3. Some of the people I know at Meta, AWS, and Twitter and smartnews got laid off here in Japan.
    I have never seen that much of people getting laid off in my whole HR career and it’s quite concerning.

  4. Not MAANG, but I know a few guys at SmartNews. They said that the Japan team are not laid off yet, but they all received offer to voluntary resign. According to them, morale is pretty much in the drain.

    I’ve also heard that Google is much more aggressive with PIP nowadays, especially with Noogle (new employer).

  5. Not MAANG but I heard Indeed had a lot of voluntary layoff stuff going towards the end of last year

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