Mike Carter
Reddit Layoffs 2026: Engineering & Trust/Safety Hiring Impact Reddit has not announced any layoffs in 2026. The company added 32 net hires in Q1 2026 on top of nearly 70 in Q4 2025, ending December 31, 2025 at 2,555 employees, up 14 percent year over year. CEO Steve Huffman is going the opposite direction from … Read more
PayPal Layoffs 2026: Fintech Engineering Talent Map PayPal CEO Enrique Lores announced on May 5, 2026 that the company will cut roughly 4,760 jobs, about 20 percent of headcount, over two to three years to reach $1.5 billion in run-rate savings. Engineering is the largest single function inside that cut, and the resulting senior fintech … Read more
Shopify Layoffs 2026: Ecommerce Engineering Hiring Window Shopify cut roughly 3,000 employees across two layoff rounds in 2022 and 2023, then froze net hiring under Tobi Lütke’s April 2025 AI-before-headcount memo, and 2026 has produced no fresh mass announcement. The talent leaving Shopify now is leaking out the side door, not getting marched out the … Read more
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, with the Supercharger team, the Dojo silicon group, the Optimus humanoid program, and the recruiting org each shedding further talent across 2024 and 2025. … 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
Last updated: May 24, 2026 | 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 … Read more
Last updated: May 23, 2026 | 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 … Read more
Last updated: May 22, 2026 | 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 … Read more
Last updated: May 21, 2026 | 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, and 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 … Read more
