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Mobileye axes 200 in its latest lane departure

by LewDiscuss

Mobileye, the crown jewel of Intel’s garage sale, is trimming another 200 employees from the payroll. Despite actually beating revenue expectations recently, stock of the robotaxi maker is still in a down nearly 27% over the last year. Management is calling this a “strategic adjustment,” which is the PR way of saying “we need to make the balance sheet look pretty before Intel dumps another billion-dollar chunk of us.”

After already killing off their LiDAR and Lane Departure units over the last two years, this latest round of layoffs equates to around 4% of global staff. But don’t worry, the suits say they’re still “recruiting for positions required to realize long-term plans.” Translation: We’re firing the expensive veterans today so we can hire cheaper replacements tomorrow. If you’re currently drawing a paycheck at the Mobileye campus, keep your resume on a thumb drive and your eyes on the door, because the most reliable “autonomous” driving from this company is its stock going off a cliff.

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Thanksgiving week massacre at HP: 4,000+ sacrificed to the Mechanical God

by LewDiscuss

HP ($HPQ) will be cutting between 4,000-6,000 jobs in its big Thanksgiving week push (10% of staff) in order to “streamline operations” for its “AI push.” This is on top of 1,000 already affected by cuts last February.

HP says the move will save over $1bil over the next three years.

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More layoffs at Barbie HQ

by LewDiscuss

Barbie’s house just shrank. Toymaker Mattel is chopping 89 marketing and design jobs at its El Segundo headquarters, starting January 12, 2026, as it carves up its global brands team into a new “brand-centric” structure that’s supposed to save $200 million by 2026. This round is on top of the 120 shed last March. The toymaker says it’s about strategy and efficiency; for the staff laid off, it’s just another round of corporate make-believe where the brands live on and the people get boxed up and sent home.

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Hats off at Fanatics Tampa distribution center

by LewDiscuss

Sports apparel giant Fanatics is announcing it will shutter its Oak Creek distribution center next year and shift the work to a newer, “more advanced” Tampa facility. The warehouse came with Fanatics’ 2017 Majestic acquisition; now it’s being written off as not up to the company’s latest “scale and innovation” story. Layoffs start March 1 and run through July 31, with workers offered severance, job fairs, and the chance to apply for roles at other Fanatics sites.

Source · Louis Llovio, Jacksonville Daily Record
Fanatics closing facility near Tampa, laying off 286 employees
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Days after laying off 10%, Vimeo acquired for $1.38 billion

by LewDiscuss

Just one week after CEO Philip Moyer took to Linkedin to spin the company’s decision to axe 10% of its workforce, Vimeo is being sold off. The struggling video platform is getting scooped up by European app developer Bending Spoons in an all-cash deal valued at $1.38 billion.

On paper, the acquisition looks rich: a 70% premium to Vimeo’s battered stock price. But investors who bought into the hype at its 2021 IPO won’t be celebrating. Even with today’s 60% pop, shares are still down nearly 85% from their debut.

For laid-off employees and long-suffering shareholders, the sale feels less like a comeback story and more like the last gasp of a once-hyped platform that never lived up to its promise.

In its article about the acquisition, TechCrunch points out why Vimeo employees shouldn’t be popping champagne for their salvation. Bending Spoons’ playbook is simple—buy broken companies (see: Evernote, WeTransfer) and then slash jobs and features until there’s nothing left but a logo.

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Scope3 snipes an undisclosed number

by LewDiscuss

This company has been in our sights for awhile… Carbon emissions auditor digital advertising middleman Scope3 is laying off an unknown number of employees, and a few are leaving of their own accord according to Adweek.

On the same day the news broke, LinkedIn inflencer company CEO, Brian O’Kelley, took to LinkedIn to post about broken demos and one of his new commercial hires (Archive)…

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Rivian sheds 200 in run-up to new car’s launch next year

by LewDiscuss

With a $7,500 tax credit set to expire this month and before the launch of its newer, cheaper SUV (the R2), Rivian is axing 200 employees (~1.5% of its workforce). This is on the heels of a quarter that saw the company lose 1.1 billion, a tremendous acceleration of the $650mm that it burned the quarter before that (and the $660mm the quarter before that). Riv says it has enough cash to see it through to the launch of the R2 in the first half of next year and with 7 bil in the bank, they may be right… for now.

Source · Ryan Felton, The Wall Street Journal
EV Maker Rivian Lays Off Workers as It Preps Launch of Cheaper SUV
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Miro slashes workforce by 275

by LewDiscuss

Online whiteboarding tool Mira is dry-erasing 275 people from its workforce (18% of total) according to The Information. The company’s last valuation was 17.5 bil and has an annual recurring revenue of over $500 million.

In an internal memo, CEO Andrey Khusid had this to say:

“Our internal organizations have become too complex, we have too many layers, some duplications in roles, and candidly, we’re not set up to execute on our strategy with the speed and flexibility that success will require.”

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