The useful number in Qualtrics' Washington notice is 117. The job-title enclosure makes that number more useful: 41 rows are software, test or infrastructure individual-contributor titles, 10 are engineering management or engineering program management, and 15 are product or product marketing. That is a broad mix, but the notice is still a compliance document rather than an org chart.

This article reviews the source documents as of October 3, 2026. The notice itself is older, so the dates need to stay separate.

Keep the four dates separate

The company letter is dated August 19, 2026. Washington's public WARN row says the state received the notice on September 2, 2026. The first separations are scheduled for October 18, 2026. October 3 is Raydar's observation date.

Those dates describe different events. August 19 is not the state receipt date, September 2 is not the first separation date, and October 3 is not the layoff date.

What the notice says

The state row lists Qualtrics LLC in Seattle, 117 workers, a permanent layoff, and an October 18 start date. The company notice and title enclosure say the action covers employees who work at the Seattle office or work remotely and report into it. Some listed employees work outside Washington and were included because they report into Seattle.

The notice says the action is permanent and is not the result of relocating or contracting out the affected work. It also says the affected employees have no bumping rights, are not represented by a union, and will continue receiving regular pay and benefits through their designated separation dates unless they resign earlier. October 18 is the first separation date, not proof that every listed employee has the same final working day.

What the title rows show

Raydar counted 117 enclosure rows, matching the state worker count. 116 rows contain a job-title value and one says #N/A. The 116 titled rows use 70 distinct strings. No employee names or home addresses were used in this analysis.

Using the title text alone, the clearest groups are:

  • 41 software, test, machine learning, security, systems, network or support individual-contributor rows
  • 10 engineering management or engineering program-management rows
  • 8 product-management rows
  • 7 product-marketing rows

The most repeated exact strings are Software Engineer II with 11 rows, Senior Software Engineer with nine, Software Test Engineer II with six, Product Manager III with four, and Growth Marketing Manager II with four. The rest span solutions, customer success, consulting, marketing, analytics, program work, operations, design and sales.

These are Raydar groupings from job-title text. They do not reveal reporting lines, products, performance, location beyond the Seattle-reporting scope, or the work each person owned.

What the notice does not establish

Qualtrics announced that it completed its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta on May 18, 2026. That is company context. The WARN notice does not state a business reason for the separations or attribute them to the acquisition.

The notice also does not give a companywide separation total. Its 117 figure covers the Seattle office and people who report into it. It does not identify the states where the included remote employees work, map titles to teams or products, or explain why individual roles were selected.

What to do with the filing

If you are affected, get your own separation date, final working day, benefits end date, and internal-transfer process in writing. A shared first-separation date is not enough to plan around.

If you are hiring, use the title list as an intake signal rather than a shortcut. Ask what the candidate owned, what changed in the 90 days before the notice, which systems they worked on, and what they want to own next. Two people with the same title can have very different scope.

A WARN count tells you the size of a covered action. The title enclosure helps you ask better questions, but it does not answer them for you.

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