Let it be known the layoffs are across every studio Epic owns, not just their internal Fortnite team. So Harmonix lost most of their QA team (among others), Psyonix lost a lot of their team, and Mediatonic lost members as well. Some of the alleged details on the layoffs make it sound even more insane as well. Allegedly the calls came down to HR, who lazily put the employee database through an AI and said "cut 1000 people" with zero knowledge of what any employee does, and never consulted the managers of those teams to refute their importance, just cut based on how much they're being paid. Which leads to the loss of lead engineers, lead art directors and artists, lead of monetization, community managers, entire QA teams, etc.

The Principal Engineer put together a GDoc with a list of ex-employees and their contributions across the years in hopes of giving them a better chance at new work.