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Mass Layoffs at Red Hat This Week (Hundreds of Engineers Laid Off)
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- Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
Update
Red Hat layoffs spun as "relocation".
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Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.
One of the first signs of the decision was a Xeet from a Chinese user with the handle @adam8157, who claimed a friend told them Red Hat’s engineering team has “graduated” – ironic Chinese slang for being fired.
A Hacker News post from a user who claims to be a principal software engineer at Red Hat China says that, on Thursday, he “woke up ... and noticed that I couldn't log in to the VPN. My access got restricted to various services that we use regularly, and no one told me why. We got a notice from our CTO shortly after to let us know that the company is ‘shifting its efforts to APAC hubs’. Utterly devastated.”
Numerous reports in Chinese media mention 300 to 500 layoffs, and a memo sent by Red Hat CTO Chris Wright.
A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a “location strategy” under which it has “identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment.”