Topics regarding layoffs at Mercury Computer Systems Inc.

Topics regarding layoffs at Mercury Computer Systems Inc.

Over 130 Engineering Staff Laid Off

Over 130 people were laid off last week (1/31), vast majority were engineers. Around 200 people have left the company since 2025 either voluntary or involuntary. For a company of around 2000 employees that's a pretty high turnover. The cuts were... — read more 

Layoff 1/29/2025

People walked out the door today. Head count not released. Not making production numbers, low yield of products.

Layoffs This Week

There were layoffs on Monday and Tuesday (6/17 and 6/18/2024) resulting in around 100 people gone from the company from what I'm told. The cuts appeared to have been in all functions including some IT people, program people, accounting people, along... — read more 

Possible layoffs before new fiscal year

I spoke to my manager who is mid level and she mentioned the COO looking to get the organization structure finalized by the start of the next fiscal year. There wasn’t any specific news but a likely chance of another final RIF as the org structure is... — read more 

Mass layoffs - engineering heavy

Got laid off this week. Lots of engineering folks gone, at least 100 total this round. On the corporate All Hands they spewed lots of talk about change being good and necessary for the company, but didn’t offer an ounce of humanity or empathy for... — read more 

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Layoffs - 1/17/2024

A RIF occurred today. It was not as large as back in Q3 2023 and the department I am in only lost a few people. This news was not out of the blue as the stock has been rapidly declining and there is an upcoming earnings call. The biggest news is the... — read more 

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Another Round of Layoffs

Got a call from my manager and was laid off out of the blue right before a customer meeting. Apparently there is another large round of layoffs occurring, not a surprise since Mercury's stock is in a freefall and the keep loosing business left and... — read more 

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Severance Package is a Mess

From when I was laid off August 10th to now, I have gotten different information in personal communication and emails than the information in the separation agreement. One thing was said face to face when I got laid off, another thing was said in the... — read more 

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Going down hill fast

I've been at Mercury going on 5 years now and I've started applying elsewhere. Every program I have worked on in the past 2 years has been red and Mercury's response to this? Fire good people who were helping keep these programs afloat and tell... — read more 

CEO is a liar

CEO joined June 30th on interim basis and within 30 days decided to cut 10% of force AFTER originally saying no layoffs were happening in their first town hall. Board decided to make CEO permanent after only a 30 day search. Whole leadership team... — read more 

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Tumultuous Future / Expected Exodus of Talent

Around 150 people were laid off last week on 8/10, around 5-10% of the company. No official announcement of the change until 8/15 and this was only because of the earnings call the same day. After the earnings call the stock bounced up 5% due to the... — read more 

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August 2023 layoffs

On the 9th, myself as well as many other great employees were cut. Many including myself providing key functions for the company. Not sure how the remaining few will survive this. Honestly curious about the selection process on who was cut and who... — read more 

Weak management

I was laid off because my manager is incompetent, barely knows how to use a keyboard, and tracks metrics with a word document

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random layoffs out of the blue

mass layoff today, huge shock to many engineers who were very busy. Engineering teams were already short staffed with extremely busy teams…Honestly not sure how the work will get done, especially seeing that some of those let go were important... — read more 

Mass Layoff

A mass layoff occurred today. The RIF effected everyone in the org from purchasing to IT to operations. There has been no major announcements from the C-Suite and the only way news has been passed is through word of mouth and seeing bounce back... — read more 

Numerous layoffs in past two weeks

Within the last two weeks there have been numerous people let go. Middle management has been mostly affected. The VP of Operations for a division was let go, the facilities leader of the largest site at the company, IT systems leader, additional VP... — read more 

Changes in company

Recently the Chief Transformation Officer was laid off and his staff (1MPACT) were either let go or moved functions. No large layoffs but since the news of the potential acquisition there has been a number of personnel changes. With a new interim... — read more 

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More layoffs to come?

Given their recent missed earnings and acknowledged tough year to come, watching for deeper hits to grey beard staff.

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90 layoffs August 2021

Name change to Mercury Systems 25 years, 6 mos severance.

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Fast Growth, no rumors on layoffs

Mercury has no layoffs. The company is growing sooooo fast... And everyone is expected to chip in and contribute. You cannot hide here - things are moving really fast and you need to be supportive - you need to run at 200 miles per hour at Mercury... — read more 

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Recent Layoffs Rumors 7/2018

Past employee informed me of a recent layoff at Mercury Computer Systems in Andover Ma. The size and actual date is unknown.

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BIG DATA is only a part of Mercury does

Many players do Big Data nowdays, the term means nothing. We at Mercury do so much more than Big Data, the cuts are reality.

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