Lay offs at Red Hat Hemlock5144 12 points 5 comments April 09, 2026 View on Hacker News This morning Red Hat fired all the engineers in China. Wake up with VPN revoked. Discussion Highlights (3 comments)grrcWhat severance package were they offered?mmarianOdd they picked China. Would've thought that's a growth area for most Western enterprises where you need to have local presence.threecheeseThey are going to pay salaries through August (no work required), outside of severance ; is this a China thing? Related DiscussionsFound 5 related stories in 697.4ms across 14,015 title embeddings via pgvector HNSWEngineering departments from China laid off at Red Hat NBS060 · 16 pts · April 09, 2026 · 78% similarElastic lays off 7% of employees dakrone · 175 pts · June 24, 2026 · 58% similarCloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce) gcr · 82 pts · May 07, 2026 · 55% similarCisco workforce reductions ahmedomran8 · 132 pts · May 14, 2026 · 55% similar45800 tech employees laid off in March 2026 alone rachid_O · 12 pts · April 29, 2026 · 54% similar
Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
grrc
What severance package were they offered?
mmarian
Odd they picked China. Would've thought that's a growth area for most Western enterprises where you need to have local presence.
threecheese
They are going to pay salaries through August (no work required), outside of severance ; is this a China thing?