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As layoffs continue to roil the tech industry, LinkedIn and Intuit recently announced plans to cut over 800 employees in Mountain View alone, with hundreds more layoffs throughout the state.
LinkedIn is laying off 411 employees from its Silicon Valley headquarters, which sits at the border of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, along with nearly 200 more across California. Intuit is cutting 493 employees in Mountain View and over 400 elsewhere in the state. In total, Intuit will cut 17% of its workforce worldwide, the company said in a blog post published Wednesday.
Software engineering roles were disproportionately represented in the California cuts at both Intuit and LinkedIn, which were detailed in state regulatory filings. Of the 606 layoffs at LinkedIn, about two-thirds were staff or managers in software development roles. Roughly a third of impacted staff at Intuit were in similar roles. Management positions were also prominent in both sets of layoffs…