Silicon Valley’s “100,000-Job Slashing”: Meta Trims Staff by Lines of Code
2025 Tech Layoff List: 100K+ AI-Driven Cuts at Meta, Google, Salesforce—Track Daily Updates
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A gloomy morning at a children’s song activity in San Francisco’s Salesforce Park, a young father—also a software engineer—pushed his stroller, lost in thought.
A few days earlier, he had received a layoff notice from Salesforce, becoming one of the casualties in the latest round of cuts at this $240 billion software giant.
At the same time, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was publicly praising how artificial intelligence improves productivity.
Just in the past two days, Meta’s superintelligence lab laid off 600 people, with reports suggesting the company used code output as a crude metric to determine the layoff list.
In 2025 Silicon Valley, the AI wave is sweeping through the tech industry in unprecedented ways, simultaneously catalyzing innovation and triggering waves of layoffs.
I have compiled a comprehensive list of this year’s Silicon Valley layoffs.
Wave After Wave of Layoffs
According to statistics from the independent layoff tracking website Layoffs.fyi, the global tech industry laid off more than 150,000 people in 2024.