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Short reads on who is raising, who is hiring, who is cutting and what companies publish about pay. Read one before your next conversation.

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Newest note eBay layoffs: 9% cut, 269 postings in a morning snapshot eBay plans to cut about 9% of its workforce. A 7:25 a.m. PT snapshot showed 269 postings, 83 in the U.S., and 79 with annual pay ranges. 6 min read Read the note

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  1. 02 Startup salaries: 7 new rounds, 107 postings with pay rangesSix of this week’s seven rounds are reported at $1 billion or more. Five Ashby boards list 123 postings; 107 show pay, but 57 ranges have no base or OTE label. 6 min read
  2. 03 Ramp's $1.85B raise: 169 postings, but what does pay mean?Ramp's October 15 financing release did not promise a hiring expansion. A late-afternoon October 20 look at 169 public postings found pay on 162, with base, OTE and unlabeled ranges side by side. 5 min read
  3. 04 Startup hiring after funding: how eight job boards changedEight selected startup boards moved from 141 to 157 listed postings. Recomputed ID comparisons show why new dates, missing roles and funding headlines need separate questions. 8 min read
  4. 05 Runpod's CFO hire meets a 30-posting board and conflicting pay copyRunpod named Brian Erickson CFO on October 13. Its 30-posting board includes three finance roles, four OTE labels and a Controller page that needs clarification. 5 min read
  5. 06 Netflix layoffs: 434 listed postings and pay labels worth checkingNetflix reported cuts through an employee memo while its careers page still listed 434 jobs. Eight checked postings show why approval, level and compensation labels need separate questions. 5 min read
  6. 07 OpenAI salary: what 645 posted pay ranges show and hideOpenAI's October 14 board shows salary ranges on 645 of 805 postings. Location tiers, unpriced equity and ambiguous commission labels matter more than the headline ceiling. 6 min read
  7. 08 TypeSafe AI's $870M Series A: 10 SF postings and a pay-label conflictTypeSafe AI's October 13 board lists 10 on-site San Francisco postings. Eight salary bands agree, Community Manager has conflicting labels, and one contract has no range. 4 min read
  8. 09 Tech layoffs: 2,631 WARN-listed positions with future dates in CA and WAAn October 12 check of California and Washington notices finds 2,631 listed positions with future dates at 12 selected technology companies. 4 min read
  9. 10 Startup pay bands: read the label before the rangeBase pay, annual Salary, OTE and a separate bonus field can describe different things. Ten current startup job disclosures show why the label matters before you compare the numbers. 6 min read
  10. 11 Mecka raises $60M with 51 postings and published payMecka announced a $60 million Series B on October 7. Its October 9 Ashby snapshot has 51 postings in New York and Toronto, annual salary ranges in two currencies, and pay labels worth checking. 4 min read
  11. 12 Anthropic salary: what 574 posted pay disclosures showAnthropic's October 18 board lists 656 postings and 574 non-placeholder pay disclosures. Five ranges changed on retained IDs, while repeated engineering bands and sales OTE caveats remain. 6 min read
  12. 13 Namespace raises $42M: 10 roles and six salary bandsNamespace says its $42 million Series B will fund product and data-center expansion. Its current job pages list 10 roles, including six with annual U.S.-dollar salary fields. 5 min read
  13. 14 Jobs report adds 29,000: what it means for tech hiringSeptember payrolls rose by 29,000. A selected group of tech-adjacent industry payrolls shrank over the year even as Indeed's software-postings index rose. The measures answer different questions. 5 min read
  14. 15 How to read a WARN notice: dates, counts, and limitsA WARN filing can establish dates, locations, worker counts, and sometimes job titles. It cannot explain an entire company decision. Here is how to read the fields across six companies and seven state summaries. 7 min read
  15. 16 Miter raised $40M. Its 14 listed roles predate the roundMiter says it raised a $40 million Series B on September 30. Its 14-role Ashby board, observed October 3, had no role published after the funding announcement and needs a careful base-versus-OTE read. 5 min read
  16. 17 Qualtrics layoffs: 117 jobs in its Seattle-linked WARNWashington received a Qualtrics WARN for 117 permanent separations tied to its Seattle office. The 117-row enclosure includes 41 software, test and infrastructure individual-contributor titles. 4 min read
  17. 18 FDE pay at four startups: read the label before the rangeEight live FDE job pages show why a headline range is not enough. Snorkel publishes base salary, Firecrawl publishes OTE, and Footprint and Confido publish annual salary with different additions. 4 min read
  18. 19 SiMa.ai's $150M Series C and its 18-role hiring boardSiMa.ai announced a $150 million Series C at a company-stated $1.45 billion valuation. Its live board lists 18 engineering roles, and every posting predates the round. 4 min read
  19. 20 Hubble raises $200 million with 14 named roles on its boardHubble Network announced a $200 million Series C at a stated $1.6 billion valuation. Its careers board listed 14 named roles plus a general application, with published engineering salaries and a combined sales salary and commission range. 2 min read
  20. 21 Instinct raises $1 billion while leaving its hiring plans openInstinct announced a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a stated $10 billion valuation. Its public site still offered no linked careers board or role-level pay on September 28. 2 min read
  21. 22 Quartermaster's $140M package combines $100M equity with $40M debtQuartermaster announced a $100 million Series B led by Insight Partners and a separate $40 million Stifel debt facility. Its 13 openings predate the announcement and eight list annual base salary bands. 2 min read
  22. 23 ServiceNow's California WARN date takes effect for 287 jobsCalifornia EDD's current WARN report lists 287 permanent ServiceNow layoffs effective September 28: 154 in Santa Clara and 133 in San Diego. The notices were filed and processed July 28, and the public rows do not identify titles or a cause. 2 min read
  23. 24 Snorkel raises $350 million with 38 roles and published FDE base paySnorkel AI announced $350 million at a stated $3.5 billion valuation. Its careers board listed 38 postings, including three Senior/Staff FDE roles with $180,000 to $320,000 base salary plus a separate variable opportunity. 2 min read
  24. 25 Baselayer raises $35 million and lists 13 jobs across two officesM13 led Baselayer's $35M Series A as the company expanded into AI-agent identity. Its current board lists 13 jobs with salary ranges, including one BDR role that also publishes OTE. 2 min read
  25. 26 Cyera's $400 million investment comes with a global hiring pushCyera names product, federal and international expansion in its funding announcement. Its current hiring board spans 180 distinct positions, with sales accounting for more than half. 2 min read
  26. 27 Footprint's September 16 Series B names a plan to double engineering and salesFootprint said its $25M Series B would double engineering and sales and support a San Francisco office. On September 27, its live board still showed 11 New York City roles and no San Francisco opening. 2 min read
  27. 28 Go.AI raises $85 million while listing 12 rolesGo.AI says its $85M Series A will support engineering, hardware, and go-to-market growth. Its live careers page lists 12 jobs, but only one publishes numeric pay. 2 min read
  28. 29 Sakana AI names Jürgen Schmidhuber advisor as RSI Lab recruits in TokyoSakana AI appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber Chief Scientific Advisor on September 24. Its careers page now lists 25 roles, including three distinct Tokyo openings for the RSI Lab. 2 min read
  29. 30 Basalt Health's $20 million raise comes with five existing openingsBasalt plans to grow sales, marketing, implementation and engineering. Its linked job board lists five remote U.S. roles with published base-pay ranges, all posted before the financing announcement. 2 min read
  30. 31 Boomi appoints Mike Hickman CFO to lead global finance and accountingBoomi appointed Mike Hickman as CFO on September 24 to lead FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, and financial reporting. His transaction history does not establish an IPO or hiring plan for Boomi. 2 min read
  31. 32 Confido raises $55 million while its board lists 34 New York jobsConfido says its $55M Series B will support hiring across product, engineering, and go-to-market. Its live board lists 34 New York jobs with role-specific pay. 2 min read
  32. 33 Microsoft's Washington notice covers 277 roles, including 60 in software engineeringWashington ESD received Microsoft's notice on September 22 for 277 permanent layoffs effective November 21. The official attachment lists 60 software engineering roles and 77 across five game craft title families. 2 min read
  33. 34 Trebellar raises $18 million and lists five remote rolesTrebellar says its $18M Series A will support engineering and go-to-market growth. Its live board lists four remote U.S. roles and one remote Spain role, without salary bands. 2 min read
  34. 35 Ando's $20 million seed comes with six existing openingsAndo emerged from stealth with $20M from Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence Capital. Its six current openings all predate the announcement and publish no salary range. 2 min read
  35. 36 DeepInfra appoints a CFO and lists three finance openingsDeepInfra appointed former Lazard managing director Slava Brin as CFO. Its careers board now lists 17 openings, including three Palo Alto finance roles with published pay ranges. 2 min read
  36. 37 HIFI's $37 million raise comes with a hiring planHIFI says its $37M Series A will support expansion into licenses, cards, and capital markets, with planned hiring across engineering, compliance, and go-to-market. 2 min read
  37. 38 Indeed's job postings turn positive year over year while tech stays softIndeed's September snapshot shows job postings up 0.7% year over year for the first positive annual reading in almost four years, while tech postings remain depressed. 2 min read
  38. 39 Lightning AI adds three executives and lists 53 named openingsLightning AI appointed Heather Paduck as CFO, Betty Junod as CMO, and Jarlath Doherty as CPO. Its Greenhouse board shows 53 named openings plus one general-interest listing. 2 min read
  39. 40 Chamelio's $26 million raise backs legal engineering and product workChamelio says its $26M Series A will support its legal action model, onboarding technology, and growth in legal engineering and product. Its live board lists 10 openings. 2 min read
  40. 41 Expedia's Seattle layoff notice covers 58 rolesWashington ESD received Expedia's notice on September 22. It covers 58 permanent Seattle layoffs, with separations expected from November 21 through December 1. 2 min read
  41. 42 Island's $400 million round comes with a larger hiring planIsland announced a $400 million Series F, and its careers site lists 37 positions. A reported plan to reach 1,500 employees by mid-2027 gives candidates a useful question about where each role fits. 2 min read
  42. 43 Numeral's $100 million raise comes with salary and OTE detailsNumeral plans to grow engineering, sales, marketing and product after its Series C. Its public job listings offer useful detail, including an important distinction between engineering salary and sales OTE. 2 min read
  43. 44 PicoJool's $27.5 million raise supports teams in the U.S. and TaiwanPicoJool says its $27.5M Series A will fund team and facility expansion in the U.S. and Taiwan across R&D, operations, sales, and marketing. It did not publish a headcount target. 2 min read
  44. 45 Delinea names former Dropbox finance chief Timothy Regan CFODelinea appointed former Dropbox CFO Timothy Regan to lead global finance and strengthen commercial and operational discipline. 2 min read
  45. 46 Ema's $77 million Series B supports a commercial hiring pushEma says its new funding will expand go-to-market work and support platform investment. Its careers page lists commercial and technical roles, including a California-specific engineering pay range. 2 min read
  46. 47 Firecrawl's $75 million Series B comes with role-specific pay detailsFirecrawl launched Alexandria alongside its Series B. Its job listings distinguish San Francisco and Toronto compensation, and clearly label the revenue engineer range as on-target earnings. 2 min read
  47. 48 Prosus names leaders for AI, technology, and productProsus named Euro Beinat Chief AI Officer, Paul van der Boor Chief Technology Officer, and Nalden Chief Product Officer to lead its AI strategy and product delivery. 2 min read
  48. 49 Verda's $189 million raise supports a growing AI cloud operationVerda says its latest financing will expand compute capacity and platform development. Its public jobs board spans infrastructure, procurement and sales, with a published pay range for its San Francisco sales leader. 2 min read
  49. 50 ClickHouse publishes Scarpelli board appointment and 1,000-person targetClickHouse published its appointment of former Snowflake CFO Mike Scarpelli to the board on September 22 and said it plans to grow from nearly 800 employees to 1,000 by year-end. The figures are company claims. 2 min read
  50. 51 Reuters reports DeepSeek plans a first CFO hireA September 14 Reuters report describes a planned first CFO hire and possible listing preparation at DeepSeek. The appointment remains unconfirmed in the sources reviewed here. 2 min read
  51. 52 Kastle pairs its $24 million Series A with published pay rangesKastle says its Insight Partners-led Series A will expand engineering, product, and go-to-market teams while its current San Francisco job board publishes compensation ranges for several roles. 2 min read
  52. 53 Noetive launches with $41 million and three remote openingsNoetive emerged from stealth with an Eclipse-led seed round and says it is growing its research and engineering team; its current site lists three remote U.S. roles. 2 min read
  53. 54 Spott's $21 million Series A comes with a specific growth planSpott says its Balderton-led Series A will support New York and Sydney expansion and a plan to grow from 44 people to more than 60 by year end. 2 min read
  54. 55 Adaptive's $30 million Series B backs Boston and New York growthAdaptive raised a $30 million Series B for its construction accounting platform and said it will grow its Boston and New York teams, where public listings show role-specific pay. 2 min read
  55. 56 WARN notices and forward-deployed roles measure different thingsCalifornia WARN notices describe planned employment actions. Current forward-deployed engineering openings show a separate customer-embedded role family, but neither measure proves the whole Bay Area market. 2 min read
  56. 57 Disney creates company-wide CTO role for Karandeep AnandDisney appointed Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand to a newly created company-wide CTO role, effective October 2, with some Character.AI technical staff expected to join him. 2 min read
  57. 58 Informed names Michael Misiewicz SVP of AI for fraud and document intelligenceInformed appointed Michael Misiewicz as SVP of AI to lead its fraud-detection and document-intelligence strategy as the company says it expands its Fraud Data Network into adjacent lending verticals. 2 min read
  58. 59 Raindrop pairs its Series A with ten San Francisco openingsRaindrop announced a CRV-led Series A and $50 million in total funding while its careers page listed ten San Francisco roles across engineering, go-to-market, and recruiting. 2 min read
  59. 60 BackOps' $42M raise puts a practical question behind AI hiring claimsBackOps plans to grow product, engineering and go-to-market teams. Its customer examples make a useful distinction between avoiding planned hires and cutting existing jobs. 2 min read
  60. 61 Jack & Jill raises $40M. Better introductions still need clear hiring decisions.The recruiting startup pairs a candidate agent with an employer agent. For hiring teams, the useful test is whether an introduction leads to a conversation both people actually want. 2 min read
  61. 62 Magentic's $18M round makes deployment experience worth a closer lookIts current London openings span engineering, customer deployment and sales. Candidates should ask how much of the job happens inside a customer’s operation. 2 min read
  62. 63 Oracle's WARN notices: check the dates before planning your next moveWashington lists 359 affected workers. California records identify three separate Oracle entries. The notice dates and planned layoff dates tell different parts of the story. 2 min read
  63. 64 Taktile's new CTO is a reason to ask who owns which decisionsJames Broadhead joins as CTO while Maximilian Eber becomes president and Thomas Piani becomes CPO. The recruiting lesson is in the responsibilities behind those titles. 2 min read
  64. 65 Vikas Chandra's move to Atoms shows how on-device AI experience can transferThe former Meta AI leader announced his move to Travis Kalanick's robotics company on September 14. His explanation gives founders and candidates a useful way to think about transferable experience. 3 min read
  65. 66 Comp AI's $34M round shows why founders should explain their hiring plansA funding announcement becomes more useful when candidates can see where they fit. Comp AI named six functions it plans to hire across. 2 min read
  66. 67 Job references: who to ask and how to prepareChoose references who know your work, ask permission, and give them the context to provide a useful assessment. 3 min read
  67. 68 How to reduce candidate dropoff without rushing the decisionMake each interview stage clear, purposeful, and easier to complete while keeping your hiring standards intact. 4 min read
  68. 69 Founding engineer or senior engineer: which hire do you need?Define the work, ownership, and support behind your next engineering hire before choosing a title. 3 min read
  69. 70 Nuance Labs' $50M round puts the work behind conversational AI in focusModeling is only one part of the team. Nuance Labs also named data, evaluation, inference and real-time serving in its hiring plans. 2 min read
  70. 71 OpenAI lists 19 robotics roles in San Francisco, with base pay up to $485KOpenAI's robotics search listed 19 San Francisco roles on October 11. PCB Layout still publishes a $485,000 upper bound, and Lead Safety appears in the current inventory. 4 min read
  71. 72 Uber's Bay Area WARN notices cover 390 roles, effective November 2California's records show 253 affected roles in San Francisco and 137 in Sunnyvale. The notices belong to the restructuring Uber announced on September 2, not a second round of cuts. 3 min read
  72. 73 How to prepare for a startup interviewConnect your experience to the role, prepare useful questions, and evaluate whether the startup is right for you. 4 min read

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