Mike Carter
Tesla Layoffs 2026: Where Displaced Auto/AI Talent Is Landing Tesla’s largest recent workforce reduction was the April 2024 cut of roughly fourteen thousand employees, more than ten percent of global headcount. The Supercharger team, the Dojo silicon group, the Optimus humanoid program, and the recruiting org each shedding further talent across 2024 and 2025. 2026 … Read more
Twilio Layoffs 2026: Communications & AI Cuts Twilio has not announced a new mass layoff in 2026. The cuts already happened. Between September 2022 and June 2025 the company shed roughly four thousand employees across four formal rounds, a Communications-versus-Data restructuring, and the wind-down of multiple acquired groups. Q1 2026 earnings confirmed headcount is flat, … Read more
Adobe Layoffs 2026: Creative Cloud & Document Cuts Adobe has not filed a Cal-WARN notice or announced a 2026 mass layoff, but silent attrition, performance-improvement-plan waves, and a CEO transition are reshaping headcount across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and the Digital Experience side of the company. The visible signal is the Shantanu Narayen exit announcement … Read more
By Mike Carter VP of Engineering salary in 2026 lands at a $215,000 base median across the full U.S. market, with total comp ranging from roughly $245,000 at a Series A startup to $1.4 million-plus at a public hyperscaler, and the spread is shaped less by the title on the door than by the company’s … Read more
By Mike Carter A security engineer in 2026 designs, builds, and operates the controls that keep an organization’s code, cloud, network, and endpoints from getting owned, with U.S. base comp ranging from $115,000 at mid-level to $245,000 at staff, varying widely by specialization. Most postings stall because the JD names a generic “security engineer” when … Read more
By Mike Carter Mobile app developers in the United States earn $82,000 to $215,000 base in 2026, with a mid-market median around $128,000 and senior native iOS roles in San Francisco and Seattle pushing past $190,000 before equity. Native iOS still pays a 6% to 9% premium over native Android at the senior level, cross-platform … Read more
By Mike Carter Software engineers in the United States earn $77,020 to $208,620 in 2026 with a BLS national median of $132,270. The offer that actually closes a hire is set more by stack ownership, AI-tool fluency, and the industry buying the chair than by raw years on the resume. AI labs, defense aerospace, and … Read more
Roughly 19,000 of VMware’s 38,000 pre-acquisition employees are gone since Broadcom closed the $69 billion deal in November 2023, and the displaced engineers are not retraining for AI roles. They are landing at Nutanix migration practices, Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine teams, regional MSPs absorbing midmarket workloads, and enterprise platform teams running … Read more
Electrical Engineer Salary Guide 2026 By Mike Carter Electrical engineers in the United States earn $66,020 to $172,340 in 2026 with a BLS national median of $111,910. The actual offer that lands a hire is more often decided by PLC stack, clearance, and industry vertical than by the years on the resume. Fusion energy, defense … Read more
ServiceNow has not announced a traditional 2026 layoff, but CEO Bill McDermott confirmed on April 22 that the company will not backfill natural attrition through year end, banking on AI productivity to hold 2027 headcount flat. The quieter story for hiring managers is that the elimination of the QA function in April and the close … Read more
