Hey I work for Unity, I don't speak for them and have a limited scope of what I can talk about. Imo (no evidence, just feels), this has nothing to do with the customers or saving face. Between 2019 and 2022 Unity went from 2700 to 7700 employees. I think they bit off more than they could chew both hiring people and buying companies, COVID money is drying up across tech, and they're trying to slam the workforce back inline with pre COVID levels.

This will fuck customers so hard. We've had two layoffs already. Morale is shot, this is making it worse, some of the best workers are leaving for more stable work because of it so there is a very real brain drain going on. My department already lost some of our most valuable people in the last few months, we are seriously limited on replacement hires, and the work they did is getting slapped on to the shoulders of like 6 of us as just more work same pay. This is going to happen to every single department in a layoff this big and large chunks of Unity will crumple because of it.

I will say that I actually like this CEO (as much as someone can like a CEO he's still a rich POS don't get me wrong). He talks to us like humans and was very up front about layoffs. JR was an indescribably huge dick who never even pretended to be human and both the previous layoffs was like "nah we're not going to fire anyone" the week before firing people. So I think there is potential for him to help turn things around eventually but right now the company is in free fall and the product will be noticably set back.