The LinkedIn layoffs follow job cuts earlier this month at the job-seeking platform’s parent company, Microsoft. Earlier this month, Microsoft laid off 86 employees across several Bay Area offices.

LinkedIn’s California layoffs affected workers at its offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, Carpinteria and Sunnyvale. More than half of those cuts hit its workforce in Mountain View.

LinkedIn, the Bay Area social networking company for professionals, is laying off 281 workers in California, per a WARN filing. The cuts include many engineers.

LinkedIn notified its employees about the layoffs on May 13. Workers posted about their pink slips on the social network, letting hiring managers and recruiters know that they were open to work.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that U.S. employers cut more than 275,000 jobs in March, with more than 216,000 of those layoffs coming in the federal government, spearheaded by Elon Musk ...