Before a mass layoff, large employers must usually file a public warning — a WARN notice — 60 days ahead. We collect every state's filings into one search. Then we ask the people it happened to what interviewing there was really like.
By the time a company files, the decision is at least 60 days old and the reorg that caused it is older than that. The signs were visible long before — to the people working there, and to the people interviewing there.
The frozen req.A role reposted three times, then pulled.
The shrinking panel.Five interviewers on the schedule, two show up.
The vanishing recruiter.Four rounds in, then nothing for six weeks.
The hedge.“We’re still finalizing headcount for the quarter.”
None of that is in a public filing. It's in what candidates and employees report — which is why we collect both.
You know things the notice doesn't say — when the hiring froze, which teams got quiet, what they told you in the room. Two minutes, anonymous, no account needed to start.
Source: state workforce agency WARN databases, consolidated by Big Local News. Employers under 100 staff usually don't have to file, so smaller layoffs are undercounted. How we handle the data →
Three steps
How it works
Sixty days of legal warning, finally where candidates can see it.
1
Search the company.
One search covers every state's WARN database at once. No login, no paywall.
2
See the whole record.
Dates, sites, headcount, and whether they've filed before. Repeat filings are the tell.
3
Add what the filing left out.
The record shows what happened. Reviews and departures show what it was like, and how early you could see it coming.
Companies research you down to your last commit. The law gives you sixty days of warning about them, buried across 44 state websites. We just moved it to where you're already looking.
A filing is 60 days of notice. A review is months of it. If you've been through a layoff or a hiring process at a company that's shrinking, that's worth more to the next candidate than any public record.