Links about the (alleged) 2022 Tech Employment Butchery

We are surrounded by many rumors about a presumed "tech bubble burst" in 2022. It could be a complete collapse or just a correction amplified by hundreds of articles about the same layoffs or hiring freezes.

To follow the signal through the media noise, I have started to collect all the available links about the alleged catastrophe.

• [FEB10TH] Layoffs at Hopin and Peloton (@GergelyOrosz)
• [MAY05TH] Facebook is freezing hiring (BusinessInsider)
• [MAY06TH] Post-pandemic reset leads to wave of layoffs in tech (Techcrunch)
• [MAY09TH] Uber CEO tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’ (CNBC)
• [MAY11TH] Tech is hitting the brakes on hiring even as other industries keep adding jobs
• [MAY12TH] (Spanish) Llegó las horas de los despidos para las startups (@davmiranda via Expansion)
• [MAY12TH] Here’s the memo Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sent about firing execs and a hiring freeze (The Verge)
• [MAY13TH] Tech employees face another tough week of cross-stage layoffs (Techcrunch)
• [MAY17TH] Coinbase will slow down hiring from its original plan to TRIPLE headcount this year (Coinbase)
• [MAY17TH] Netflix lays off 150 employees (CNBC)
• [MAY17TH] (Spanish) Las grandes tecnológicas han dejado de contratar y afrontan algo inédito en su historia: vacas flacas (Xataka)
• [MAY18TH] (Spanish) Las tecnológicas ante su tormenta perfecta financiera: hundimientos, batacazo cripto y capital riesgo congelado (Xataka)
• [MAY23TH] Klarna announcement from CEO Sebastian
• [MAY24TH] Gorillas fires half its employees at HQ (Sifted)
• [MAY25TH] Embattled Payments Startup Bolt Is Cutting One-Third of Staff (Bloomberg)
• [MAY26TH] PayPal Begins Cutting Staff as Its Push to Reduce Costs Ramps Up
• [JUN3RD] Coinbase is rescinding job offers for people who haven't started yet (@Carnage4Life)
• [JUN10TH] Trade Republic lays off numerous employees

Companies allegedly Affected

Freezes

• Meta
• Twitter

Layoffs

• Avo
• Better.com
• Bolt
• Cameo
• Carvana
• DataRobot
• Doma
• Fast
• Gopuff
• Gorilla
• Hopin
• klarna
• Latch
• MainStreet
• Mural
• Netflix
• Noom
• On Deck
• PayPal
• Peloton
• Reef
• Robinhood
• Sea
• Section4
• Send
• Thrasio
• Trade Republic
• Tudum (Netflix editorial arm)
• Unacademy
• Vroom
• WeDoctor
• Workrise
• Zwift

Slowdowns

• Coinbase