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AI Workers Aren't Worried About AGI—They're Worried About Their Jobs The AI industry continues to move at breakneck speed, but behind every new model release is a workforce grappling with layoffs, burnout, mounting performance expectations, and growing skepticism about whether AI is making work better—or simply making workers more replaceable.

By Blind Insight AI Team

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PIPs Are the New Tool in Silent Layoffs (Blind TL;DR: July 24, 2026)Workers are starting to catch onto their managers’ suspicious activities. One professional on Blind shared they have been going above and beyond for their manage only to be placed on PIP with no prior warnings.

By Marielle Farmer

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Most Significant Layoffs in the First Half of 2026 More than 180,000 tech workers were laid off in the first half of 2026, with Oracle, Amazon, and Meta among the companies making the deepest cuts.

By Marielle Farmer

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Why Alexandr Wang Became the Face of Meta's AI Debate

Between June 22 and July 10, 2026, five major Blind discussions about Meta executive Alexandr Wang made him one of the platform's most-discussed AI leaders during that period.

By Blind TeamJuly 28, 2026

Tech

The Broken Ladder The door into a software career is closing fast for new graduates. The juniors at that door and the seniors watching from inside both see a dark road ahead. We combed through the anonymous posts on Blind to look inside.

By Blind Insight AI Team

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Same Company, Two Truths: How HQ and India See the GCC India GCCs at seven big-tech firms, from a year of talk on Blind. The move HQ reads as a threat, the GCC reads as opportunity. But the GCC voice itself is split between pride and a promotion ceiling.

By Blind Insight AI Team

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The Obituary and the Invoice In Silicon Valley, people keep saying that SaaS is dead: the business software companies rent by the month. The firms that sell it and the firms that buy it both see a dark road ahead. We counted 350 anonymous posts on Blind to hear what they really think.

By Blind Insight AI Team

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Work Life

Burnout is made by a threat, and the machine that enforces it Big-tech burnout across five firms, from a year of talk on Blind: the threat of layoffs, the performance machine that enforces it, and the escape hatch of medical leave. At Amazon the hatch is institutionalized; at Google, people hurt most quietly.

By Blind Insight AI Team · Jul 2, 2026

Tech

An earnings call to the CEO, a layoff notice to the staff ~10,000 employee reactions to early-2026 big-tech earnings. Half the negativity was about layoffs, and even the positives were about the stock, not the company. Only Google's AI story landed.

By Blind Insight AI Team · Jul 1, 2026

Tech

Big tech says AI is doing the work. Its own employees disagree.Nine technology firms, about a million anonymous posts and searches. What employees are angry about isn't AI. It's what AI produces.

By Blind Insight AI Team · Jul 1, 2026

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Salesforce Layoffs Spark Anxiety Across Tech as Workers Fear They’re Being Overlooked (Blind TL;DR: June 12, 2026)Salesforce employees expressed frustration over minimal media coverage of recent layoffs, while community data showed a surge in workers seeking severance details and support.

By Marielle Farmer · Jun 12, 2026

Salaries

2026 Top Paying Positions in Tech Self-reported salary data reveals the top 10 highest total compensation packages, with Oracle's senior director of software engineering leading at $1.78 million.

By Marielle Farmer · Jun 3, 2026

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“I used to cry after meetings”: Amazon India trails both Big Tech rivals and its own U.S. offices Amazon India ranks last among major tech firms in India on work-life balance, management, culture, and overall satisfaction, according to anonymous employee reviews.

By Alex Han · Jun 2, 2026