Unity is making massive cuts. Layoffs affect at least 200 people
Western companies also have problems. Unity conducts abbreviations. However, there have been no public statements yet. The data is exclusively from the media.
The first publication to report on the cuts in Unity was Kotaku. According to him:
▫️the service for Blind technical specialists has information about the reduction of 300-400 people;
Kotaku sources confirmed both the fact of layoffs and the figures;
It also became known that the cuts affected a number of the company’s offices around the world;
The main blow fell on the departments dealing with AI and development;
The hiring process has been frozen for all departments.
A few hours later, a Protocol journalist reported that Unity had officially confirmed the cuts in a conversation with him. However, the company has adjusted the figures. It turns out that we are not talking about 400 specialists, but about 4% of the total number of the team.
Recall that last year Unity had 5,245 employees. In other words, we are talking about the fact that 200-something people could be left without work.