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Recruiting Startup Layoffs

Tracking every layoff at recruiting startups since 2020 — 57 events affecting 5,857 employees, latest on October 14, 2025. Sources included. Explore interactively in the live tracker.

57layoff events
5,857employees affected
October 14, 2025most recent

Latest layoffs (Recruiting)

CompanyLaid offDateIndustryCountry
Handshake 100 October 14, 2025 Recruiting United States
ZipRecruiter 80 September 16, 2025 Recruiting United States
Textio 15 January 15, 2025 Recruiting United States
HeyJobs 90 January 15, 2025 Recruiting Germany
LinkedIn 202 November 21, 2024 Recruiting United States
Toptal — October 10, 2024 Recruiting United States
CareerBuilder + Monster 200 October 10, 2024 Recruiting United States
iCIMS 69 August 9, 2024 Recruiting United States
SeekOut — May 16, 2024 Recruiting United States
Textio 14 March 14, 2024 Recruiting United States
Lever — January 5, 2024 Recruiting United States
StepStone 215 October 30, 2023 Recruiting Germany
Stack Overflow — October 16, 2023 Recruiting United States
LinkedIn 660 October 16, 2023 Recruiting United States
SeekOut 16 October 5, 2023 Recruiting United States
Talent.com — September 5, 2023 Recruiting Canada
HackerRank 53 August 27, 2023 Recruiting United States
JOIN — August 23, 2023 Recruiting Germany
Gem 70 August 2, 2023 Recruiting United States
Joonko — June 25, 2023 Recruiting United States
ZipRecruiter 270 May 31, 2023 Recruiting United States
DHI Group 53 May 26, 2023 Recruiting United States
Stack Overflow 58 May 10, 2023 Recruiting United States
LinkedIn 716 May 8, 2023 Recruiting United States
Greenhouse 100 April 27, 2023 Recruiting United States
Talent.com 86 April 5, 2023 Recruiting Canada
Textio 15 April 3, 2023 Recruiting United States
GoodWorker — March 30, 2023 Recruiting Singapore
LinkedIn — February 13, 2023 Recruiting United States
Hirect 200 November 28, 2022 Recruiting India
Gem 100 November 1, 2022 Recruiting United States
Built In 50 October 5, 2022 Recruiting United States
Expert360 7 August 11, 2022 Recruiting Australia
Dover 23 July 26, 2022 Recruiting United States
Limelight 13 February 4, 2021 Recruiting United States
kununu — August 26, 2020 Recruiting United States
LinkedIn 960 July 21, 2020 Recruiting United States
Hired — June 30, 2020 Recruiting United States
Hireology 36 May 12, 2020 Recruiting United States
Glassdoor 300 May 7, 2020 Recruiting United States
Handshake — May 5, 2020 Recruiting United States
Workable 25 May 5, 2020 Recruiting United States
Stack Overflow 40 May 5, 2020 Recruiting United States
Andela 135 May 5, 2020 Recruiting United States
Qwick — April 27, 2020 Recruiting United States
Greenhouse 120 April 17, 2020 Recruiting United States
Built In 28 April 10, 2020 Recruiting United States
Kenoby 18 April 8, 2020 Recruiting Brazil
Lever 86 April 8, 2020 Recruiting United States
The Muse — April 3, 2020 Recruiting United States
Jobcase 39 April 2, 2020 Recruiting United States
Wonolo 46 April 1, 2020 Recruiting United States
AngelList 20 March 31, 2020 Recruiting United States
ZipRecruiter 400 March 29, 2020 Recruiting United States
Textio 30 March 27, 2020 Recruiting United States
Triplebyte 15 March 23, 2020 Recruiting United States
Ejento 84 March 19, 2020 Recruiting United States

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