Hiring data, layoffs, market analysis, and the macro forces shaping AI and tech careers in 2026.
OpenAI has never had mass layoffs — but it's had a board coup, a CTO departure, a safety team exodus, and a triple executive exit in April 2026. Growing from 4,500 to 8,000. 649 open roles. Here's the full story.
📈 Industry TrendsGoogle cut 12,000+ jobs in 2026 but DeepMind has been largely shielded. ~2,500 DeepMind employees, 82 open roles. Full timeline of the Google Brain merger, restructuring, and what employees say now.
📈 Industry TrendsDid Anthropic have layoffs in 2026? No. With ~1,500 employees, 452 open roles, and a $61.5B valuation, Anthropic is in aggressive hypergrowth mode. Full hiring status and culture breakdown.
📈 Industry TrendsVercel replaced its 10-person sales team with AI in 2025 and has had layoffs amid rapid growth. In 2026: ~600 employees, 85 open roles, $340M ARR, and IPO signals. Full story inside.
📈 Industry TrendsPlaid cut 20% of staff (260 people) in December 2022. In 2026 they've reached profitability, raised $575M at a $6B+ valuation, and have ~96 open roles. Full layoff timeline and recovery story.
📈 Industry TrendsHas Linear ever had layoffs? The $1.25B project management startup has ~80–100 employees, 22 open roles, and has never conducted a layoff. Full hiring status and culture breakdown for 2026.
📈 Industry TrendsNo layoffs at Cursor in 2026. Anysphere is in hypergrowth: $2B ARR, $50B valuation, 71 open roles, ~50 employees. Full hiring breakdown and what to expect applying now.
📈 Industry TrendsRunway (AI video) has not had layoffs in 2026. The company raised $315M in February 2026 at a $5.3B valuation and is aggressively hiring. Full hiring status, culture ratings, and competitive landscape.
📈 Industry TrendsDatabricks has not had mass layoffs in 2026. With $134B valuation, 840+ open roles, and a pre-IPO push, here's what to know before applying — including role cuts, culture, and how it compares to Snowflake.
📈 Industry TrendsMicrosoft, Amazon, Instagram all mandating return-to-office. But 14 companies on JobsByCulture are still genuinely remote-first in 2026 — with 956 open roles. Here's who they are and how to verify.
📈 Industry Trends61,000+ tech employees laid off in Q1 2026 alone — Oracle, Block, Amazon, Meta, Dell. But companies like Databricks, Anthropic, and OpenAI are hiring thousands. Here's the full tracker and who's growing.
📈 Industry TrendsOracle laid off 20,000-30,000 employees in March 2026 (~18% of workforce) to fund a $156B AI buildout. Here's what happened, what Oracle's culture was really like, and where to find better roles now.
📈 Industry TrendsWe benchmarked employer brands across 45 AI & tech companies. Median Glassdoor is 4.2, median WLB is 3.8. Full rankings from Vast AI (5.0) to Cohere (2.9), plus what separates top employers from the rest.
📈 Industry Trends220 AI & tech jobs in Paris from 13 companies including Mistral AI (95 roles), Datadog (55), Databricks (24), and Hugging Face. Salary data, company culture ratings, and how to land an AI job in Europe's AI capital.
📈 Industry TrendsWe analyzed 7,083 open roles across 45 AI companies. Mistral AI is hiring at 145% of headcount. Databricks leads with 836 roles. Full hiring intensity rankings, role demand data, and what it means for recruiters.
📈 Industry TrendsStripe laid off 14% in 2022 and another 300 in January 2025. In 2026 they have 8,000+ employees, 500+ open roles, and a 4.0 Glassdoor. Full layoff timeline and recovery story.
📈 Industry TrendsHow many employees do the top AI companies have in 2026? Live headcount data for 57 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Cursor, Perplexity, Stripe, and more. Updated April 2026.
📈 Industry TrendsWe ranked 27 AI & tech companies with jobs in San Francisco by work-life balance score. Notion leads at 4.2 — Scale AI trails at 2.7. 1,847 open SF jobs.
📈 Industry TrendsWe ranked 26 AI & tech companies with jobs in New York by work-life balance score. Hugging Face leads at 4.1 among major employers — Scale AI trails at...
📈 Industry TrendsWe ranked 35 AI & tech companies by what engineers care about most. See who leads in technical culture, compensation, autonomy, and open source — plus...
📈 Industry Trends11 AI startups under 500 employees ranked by Glassdoor rating. Vast AI leads at 5.0, Linear at 4.6, and LangChain at 4.6. 619 open jobs across all startups.
📈 Industry TrendsWe ranked all 35 AI & tech companies by Glassdoor rating. Vast AI leads at 5.0, Cohere trails at 2.9. See the full rankings with employee reviews.
📈 Industry Trends9 open source AI companies actively hiring in 2026 — 729 open jobs from Hugging Face, LangChain, Vercel, Airbnb, and more. Real Glassdoor data and...
📈 Industry TrendsWe ranked all 35 AI & tech companies by work-life balance score using Glassdoor data. See who leads (Vast AI at 4.5) and who trails (Scale AI at 2.7).
📈 Industry TrendsNot just remote-OK — genuinely remote-first. 11 AI companies with real remote culture, open roles, Glassdoor ratings, and what employees actually say about WFH.