Bay Area Layoffs: Glassdoor And Microsoft Slash Jobs

Hundreds of Bay Area jobs are set to be cut at tech giant Microsoft, job-seeking and reviewing site Glassdoor, and genetic-testing firm Natera, Inc., official filings with the Employment Development Department show.

The cuts will include 130 Glassdoor jobs in San Francisco on March 31, 65 Microsoft jobs in Mountain View and San Jose on May 5, and 59 Natera jobs in San Carlos on May 16.

“Microsoft has decided to reorganize and restructure operations resulting in the elimination of positions located at Microsoft facilities in the Silicon Valley region,” the company told The Mercury News.

In its WARN letter to the EDD obtained by the outlet, Glassdoor said that “a significant downturn in business due to current economic conditions” prompted the company to eliminate jobs.

Tech and biotech companies have revealed plans to cut at least 23,200 jobs in the Bay Area—some of which have yet to take place—since July 2022, The Mercury News reported.

These layoffs include thousands of jobs at Google and Salesforce and hundreds at Twitter and Cisco Systems.

Also included on the long list of businesses to file WARN notices with the state of California in March are Auris Health and Verb Surgical, both Johnson & Johnson-owned medical robotics companies. The employers are cutting 292 and 47 positions, respectively, in late April at locations in Redwood City and Santa Clara.

Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is laying off 240 people in Palo Alto by mid-April, according to the state’s WARN report.

Other Bay Area layoffs include Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, which is cutting 112 people by early May in Mountain View, and Embark Trucks, which builds software for self-driving trucks and plans to lay off 109 people out of San Francisco within a similar timeframe, the WARN report stated.

Clif Bar & Co. will terminate 34 people in Oakland, also in early May, according to the report.