Microsoft-owned code-sharing and publishing service GitHub has fired about 140 employees, or 45% of its total Indian workforce, sources in the know told Economic Times. The layoffs have mainly impacted engineering roles, one of the sources said.
This is part of a global retrenchment plan that the company had announced in February, a spokesperson told ET in response to queries.
“As part of the reorganisation plan shared in February, workforce reductions were made today as part of difficult but necessary decisions and realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy moving forward,” the spokesperson said.
The development was first flagged by Gergely Orosz, a former Uber engineering manager, who runs a newsletter Pragmatic Engineer.