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A number of employees have been laid off at Valve. News first broke via the Twitter account of engineer Jeri Ellsworth, who wrote “yup. Got fired today. Time for new exciting projects.”
According to a report from Gamasutra, Ellsworth is one of several employees let go today as part of a “great cleansing” and “large decisions” within the company, and the layoffs were based on changes in the company rather than performance issues.
As many of 25 may have been affected, but the exact number remains uncertain. The layoffs are said to have hit multiple departments including hardware and Android development.
We’ve reached out to Valve for confirmation and clarification about the layoffs and will update this story with any comment we receive.
