Summary
Pinterest fired two engineers for using company tools to track employees who were laid off after the company announced job cuts. The layoffs affected about 15% of Pinterest's workforce, but the company did not specify which teams were impacted. The engineers used a script to gather information on dismissed employees, which violated company policy.
Key Facts
- Pinterest fired two engineers for creating a tool to track employees who lost their jobs.
- The company recently announced layoffs affecting about 15% of its workforce.
- The engineers used a script to access company tools and identify fired employees.
- The script violated Pinterest's privacy policy by revealing names and locations.
- The layoffs are part of a trend in the tech industry, which has seen many job cuts recently.
- Amazon and Meta also announced job cuts around the same time.
- Over the past four years, the tech industry has laid off about 700,000 people according to Layoffs.fyi.
