Hey all,
Our annual summer social is coming up this Thursday! We’ve got an exciting announcement and free drinks lined up for the occasion 🥳 Don’t miss out!! Bring along your industry colleagues, let’s close out the summer together 🍹
https://www.meetup.com/write-the-docs-london/events/313761542/
There have been quite a few layoffs in the industry lately, but there are also companies hiring. Let's do some crowd-sourced tracking.
Comment if you know of a company that has recently laid off technical writers or content teams or, conversely, is hiring.
I'll update the table in the post as new information comes in.
| Hiring | Layoffs |
|---|---|
| Antropics | Meta (as a part of a global layoff) |
| Datadog | Snowflake |
| PostHog | Klayvio |
| Postman | Cloudflare (as a part of a global layoff) |
| Unity | GitLab (laid-off 7% of all staff including |
| Thought Machine | Oracle (as a part of a global layoff) |
| Checkout | Amazon (as a part of a global layoff) |
| JetBrains | Microsoft (as a part of a global layoff) |
| Bloomberg | Manhattan associates |
| Epicor | |
| Vercel | Epic Games |
| Okta | |
| Carma | |
| Salesforce | |
| Tesla | |
| CrowdStrike |
This isn't the first time I’ve noticed Anthropic hiring writers. Last time it was a technical writer, and now they’re looking for a copywriter, a head of copy, and someone to manage their engineering blog.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-job-copywriter-pays-up-to-320k-2026-5
Definitely a good sign.
Not long ago I saw posts about technical writers getting laid off at Snowflake. Now I’m seeing they’re hiring a Head of Learning and Content Experience.
The job description talks about transforming things and using AI to improve output, so I’m wondering what changed. Is this just a restructuring or a shift in direction?
Not planning to apply, just curious. Anyone here have context?