Meta to Lay Off 1,395 Washington State Employees This Summer in Largest Local Round Yet

Bellevue is absorbing the heaviest impact of any single location, with 699 employees notified. Seattle’s two offices account for another 259 affected workers, while 206 employees in Redmond are also included in the filing. An additional 231 remote workers across the state round out the total.

The roles being eliminated span a broad range of functions, including software engineering, product management, data science, design, information technology, and other teams, indicating the cuts reach across Meta’s operational structure rather than being concentrated in a single division.

The scale of this round dwarfs Meta’s previous Washington state layoffs in 2026. The company cut 168 employees in an earlier round disclosed in April, which itself followed 331 Washington state cuts announced in January and more than 100 in October 2025 targeting its Reality Labs division. The cumulative toll of Meta’s workforce reductions in Washington state now runs into the thousands over the past several months.

The concentration of cuts in Bellevue underscores how deeply the Eastside’s growth has become tied to the fortunes of large technology companies, and how sharply those fortunes can shift. Meta employs thousands of people across the Seattle region and has been one of the more significant employers in Bellevue alongside Amazon, which has also been quietly reducing its Seattle footprint while expanding on the Eastside.