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 47.8ms across 4,075 title embeddings via pgvector HNSWEngineering departments from China laid off at Red Hat NBS060 · 16 pts · April 09, 2026 · 78% similarOracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs kklisura · 476 pts · April 03, 2026 · 52% similarOracle slashes 30k jobs pje · 853 pts · March 31, 2026 · 50% similarToday's Layoffs adrianhon · 66 pts · March 24, 2026 · 50% similarAtlassian promotes and lays off someone in the same day mmarian · 19 pts · March 15, 2026 · 49% 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?