A GitHub spokesperson has confirmed to the news agency IANS that the Microsoft-owned platform GitHub has laid off its entire engineering team in India.
GitHub has reportedly laid off its entire engineering team in India. The opensource developer platform is owned by Microsoft. The India centre is thecompanys second largest developer community after the US. The platform hasrecently reached 100 million members globally, and is said to be growing fast inIndia where it crossed 10 million developers.
Tech writer Cergely Orosz, who tracks global tech layoffs especially among theengineering/developer teams, shared the same in a post on Twitter. "What I amhearing: GitHub's India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete devteam was let go at once. We're talking of NIOO engineers. Engineers speculate thiswas done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lowerpriority stuff," he said in the post. Orosz has also given his thoughts in a series oftweets on th...