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As layoffs continue to roil the tech industry, LinkedIn and Intuit recently announced plans to cut over 800 employees in Mountain View alone, with hundreds more layoffs throughout the state.
LinkedIn is laying off 411 employees from its Silicon Valley headquarters, which sits at the border of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, along with nearly 200 more across California. Intuit is cutting 493 employees in Mountain View and over 400 elsewhere in the state. In total, Intuit will cut 17% of its workforce worldwide, the company said in a blog post published Wednesday.
Software engineering roles were disproportionately represented in the California cuts at both Intuit and LinkedIn, which were detailed in state regulatory filings. Of the 606 layoffs at LinkedIn, about two-thirds were staff or managers in software development roles. Roughly a third of impacted staff at Intuit were in similar roles. Management positions were also prominent in both sets of layoffs.
The professional networking platform LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, has 17,500 employees worldwide. Intuit, a financial technology company behind software including TurboTax and Mailchimp, has roughly 15,000 employees.
The reduction in headcount at the two tech giants come amid a wave of layoffs in the sector, with one industry tracker estimating that 100,000 tech jobs have been eliminated in 2026.
On Wednesday, Meta laid off 8,000 employees worldwide, a 10% reduction to its workforce as the company has ramped up investment in artificial intelligence. Oracle dismissed 700 employees statewide in April amid an aggressive expansion in AI.
LinkedIn announces planned cuts
On July 13, LinkedIn plans to dismiss 352 employees in Mountain View, along with another 59 in Sunnyvale, according to filings the company made with the California Employment Development Department.
The company also intends to cut 108 staff members in San Francisco and 21 in Carpinteria, a small city near Santa Barbara, along with 66 California-based remote workers.
“As part of our regular business planning, we’ve implemented organizational changes to best position ourselves for future success,” LinkedIn spokesperson Jonny Wing said in an email.
LinkedIn is looking to “scale back investments” in certain areas such as marketing campaigns, vendors, customer events and underutilized office space, according to Business Insider.
Wing declined to comment on the record about whether artificial intelligence played a role in the layoff decisions.
Affected employees are located at 700 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View; 1000 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale; 222 Second St., San Francisco; and 6410 Via Real, Carpinteria.
Intuit joins wave of tech layoffs
Intuit, which is headquartered in Mountain View, announced this week that it would cut 910 employees across California, starting on July 31.
In addition to 493 Mountain View-based employees, the layoffs will impact 90 employees near Los Angeles, 277 from its San Diego office, and 50 San Francisco employees. The totals for each city include remote employees, according to state filings.
Intuit announced in the May 20 blog post that its priorities included scaling its AI-native platform and that it would reduce layers of management and overlap between roles.
Sara Day, a spokesperson for Intuit, said that the company is changing its operating model to increase accountability and accelerate decision making.
“AI is an important part of how we’re evolving as a company, but these decisions were not driven by AI replacing employees,” Day said in an email. “These changes are a necessary evolution to reduce complexity and architect an organization that operates with the velocity required to fuel our growth engines.”
Affected employees are located at 2601 Garcia Ave., Mountain View; 505 Howard St., San Francisco; 7535 Torrey Santa Fe Road, San Diego; and 21650 Oxnard St., Woodland Hills.
