Didn’t they go through a major layoff recently.

interviews are inevitable. But sometimes the amount of interviews are reduced. You may have to go through less rounds.

YOE - close to 11.

and you believe that? These decisions are sometimes taken to reduce the cost of the team/orgs. They fire high earner or senior folks and back fill the positions with people on low wages or junior positions.

And even if it was true, stamping someone a bad performer is bad for their career. They already got enough backlash for this.

I have many friends working there, they confirmed that it was indeed a performance based layoff.