More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
Previously:
- Many Layoffs at IBM Red Hat, as the Rumours Said
- The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
- "IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
- Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
The word about Red Hat layoffs seems to have spread. Some forums talk about it with more details, e.g.: "Engineering departments from China laid off at Red Hat - Principal SWE here. I woke up this morning and noticed that I couldn't log in to the VPN. My access got restricted to various services that we use regulartly, and no one told me why. I've asked other colleagues and we quickly noticed that many people in the team couldn't access internal services as well. We got a notice from our CTO shortly after to let us know that the company is "shifting its efforts to APAC hubs". Utterly devastated. I've been at Red Hat for over 6 years now and I've contributed to key initiatives including work on Libvirt, Qemu, and OpenShift (my team helped with the support and integration of bare metal machines in ROSA). I don't know how many associates were impacted but I were to guess, I would say at least 300, if not more. Time to find another job I guess."
This hardly became visible. One comment said: "Sorry to hear this. It's hard one day feeling like you're valued member of a team, then the next day finding out you're actually seen as completely dispensable. Best of luck with the job hunt."
This one (dated today) looks like a slopfarm:
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