LinkedIn, the Bay Area company whose job posting site has grown synonymous with the modern search for work, has added a few hundred people to the pool of jobless Californians.
The Microsoft-owned tech company announced 281 layoffs across the state in a WARN document filed Tuesday with local officials. The filing said LinkedIn workers were notified of their layoffs on May 13 and listed out the cuts by location: 159 workers in Mountain View, 60 in San Francisco, 23 in Sunnyvale, 11 in Carpinteria and 28 who worked remotely while living in California.
Droves of software engineers are losing their jobs, the WARN filing shows. In Mountain View alone, three broad categories of software engineer, including titles with “staff” and “senior” in the name, will see 71 such positions cut. That doesn’t include coding specialists working on machine learning, devops and systems infrastructure, a scattering of whom are also being let go. Deal desk strategists, product managers, designers and a variety of other workers are also listed on the WARN filing…