Not completely a red flag... I've only been through layoffs twice but both times the cuts the company made were pretty logical in terms of investing more in the

Not completely a red flag... I've only been through layoffs twice but both times the cuts the company made were pretty logical in terms of investing more in the existing profitable parts of the company and cutting things that were bets but would have take awhile to even prove if they were the right bets to make. The one thing I would be concerned about is the ~2 months after layoffs are pretty rough morale wise. - People lost their friends and are upset about it - Systems start breaking and the knowledge of them was lost - Team restructuring means learning how to work with new people - Adjusting expectations for the new velocity of the remaining engineers takes time I personally would not join a company that recently did layoffs because socially its going to be awkward for awhile.