Laid off from GitHub.

No standing terms are on record. For the 2023 round GitHub told staff that affected people would get transition compensation, COBRA or its equivalent outside the US, and career transition services, without publishing amounts. In India, reporting citing people aware of the matter described two months' pay against a non-disclosure agreement. Nothing since has been published in the reporting we track, and the governing document is your own agreement.

Our tracker holds zero filings under GitHub's name, all-time. That's a fact about the name on the filing rather than about job security. Microsoft files its own notices as Microsoft, the way it disclosed 1,985 Washington layoffs to the state in May 2025, and GitHub runs remote-first by its departing CEO's description, spread around the world, so its people sit in many states at once rather than at one filing address.

GitHub hasn't announced a round of its own since 2023, and Microsoft's rounds since then name divisions rather than GitHub. During Microsoft's May 2025 cuts GitHub held its own town hall and stopped hiring for the rest of that fiscal year, though no GitHub reductions are confirmed in the reporting we track. The 2023 restructuring was GitHub's own, announced by GitHub's own CEO.

Nothing GitHub-specific is confirmed in the reporting we track. A community layoff tracker carries one unverified GitHub entry dated May 15, 2026, marked a rumor and listing no number of people, which is an employee-report post rather than a company announcement. Microsoft cut about 4,800 roles that July without naming GitHub among the divisions.

Microsoft appointed no successor. Dohmke said in August 2025 that he'd stay through the end of that year, and GitHub's leadership continued inside Microsoft's CoreAI organization, with Julia Liuson reported to take on GitHub revenue, engineering and support. If you're working out who decides your role now, the answer sits in Microsoft's structure rather than GitHub's.

In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. GitHub's biggest U.S. hubs are California, Washington, Texas. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.

Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.

Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.

First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.

Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.