[echelon]

> How exactly would you ask this in an interview setting?

You now know which companies do this.

Every company laying off now has to wear a Scarlett Letter: "we're a layoffs company".

[jameshart]

There are two kinds of tech company.

Companies which have done a layoff

And companies which haven’t done a layoff yet.

[sokoloff]

Good luck working in tech for a company that's never done a layoff.

Just Apple (and even there only "mostly") among big tech?

[xp84]

I thought it was hilarious when they did their layoff a couple years ago just because everyone else was. It was portrayed by their announcement as though it was a business need that they tighten their belts, as though Apple, the company that makes twelve figures of profit every fiscal year were in some kind of tight cash flow situation. Really made it obvious that they saw the atmosphere as “good layoff weather.”