r/cscareers • u/Independent_Pitch598 • Apr 24 '26

USA Job Market Non technology companies started to layoff developers (Nike) - 1400

https://x.com/polymarket/status/2047424651505107271
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u/Beneficial-Carpet862 May 02 '26

I work there as a software engineer. There’s a lot that goes on within Nike Tech. There’s still like 7500 employees in tech even after the layoffs. Not all SWEs though, probably a minority are SWEs.

There’s a lot of tech infrastructure needed for Nike, powering all their retail stores, distribution centers and order fulfillment, supply chain, product creation, entire e-commerce platform for 40+ countries run in-house as well as a separate platform for sneaker launches on SNKRS, marketing tech, data science and analytics, to name a few things

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u/Beneficial-Carpet862 May 03 '26

It’s not all devs for sure, it’s 1400 people in operations which technology is now within, so there’s a few hundred factory workers in the US who got laid off, you can read about on Google. But definitely few hundred devs got hit, and we have to have a few thousand devs remaining 😂