PayPal Cuts 251 More San Jose Jobs as It Guts Engineering for AI

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    "url": "https://startupfortune.com/paypal-cuts-251-more-san-jose-jobs-as-it-guts-engineering-for-ai/",
    "title": "PayPal Cuts 251 More San Jose Jobs as It Guts Engineering for AI - Startup Fortune",
    "contact": "Anshu Bhardwaj",
    "excerpt": "More than 50 senior engineers and nearly 50 directors are among the 251 people PayPal is cutting at its San Jose headquarters, effective October 30. The people losing their jobs helped build the payment platform they're now leaving. More than 50 senior software engineers, nearly 50 directors and more than 40 senior managers: that's who shows up in PayPal's WARN filing for 251 layoffs at its South Bay headquarters, effective October 30. PayPal told California labor regulators on August 31 that the cuts span over 100 engineering positions. The San Francisco Chronicle, which reported the filing, notes these aren't entry-level roles. They're the people who've spent years maintaining the payment rails that move billions of dollars a day. This is one filing inside a much bigger plan. CEO Enrique Lores, who took over in March, told investors on PayPal's Q1 earnings call in May that the company would cut roughly 20% of its global workforce, about 4,760 of its 23,800 employees, over the next two to three years. The goal is at least $1.5 billion in gross run-rate savings, and Lores was blunt about where that money is going. \"We are becoming a technology company again, and we are aggressively adopting AI in our development processes,\" he said. Translation: fewer people writing and maintaining code, more AI systems doing it instead. PayPal backed that statement with an org chart change...",
    "summary": "PayPal named Anshu Bhardwaj, a veteran of PayPal and Walmart, as its new Chief AI Transformation and Simplification Officer in late April.",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://startupfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/paypal-enrique-lores-san-jose-layoffs.jpg",
    "job_title": "Chief AI Transformation and Simplification Officer",
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    "published_at": "2026-09-28T11:01:24Z",
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    "article_sentence": "In late April, it named Anshu Bhardwaj, a PayPal engineering veteran who previously held senior technology leadership roles at Walmart, as its new Chief AI Transformation and Simplification Officer.",
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