They laid off anyone competent enough to do it

Haha this is probably because in the crippled language called JavaScript array elements are by default sorted by first converting them to strings.

I prefer https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

In my experience, this holds true.

A number of my competitors have been initiating relatively large layoffs the past few months after enforcing a hiring freeze in early-mid 2023 compared to back in 2022.

That said, it's been 70-30 Sales+Marketing-Engineering+Product layoffs wise, but Engineering+Product hiring has absolutely been tamped down.

I wouldn't be surprised if RTO is being used as a way to force some redundancies to leave so we could rehire at a better comp level.