This happened at my company. We offered our US based QA Engs a chance to upskill and become SWEs to backfill some open reqs. The QAs that didn't ended up being let go even though EngManagement gave MULTIPLE warnings that the writing is on the wall if you didn't upskill. We had a 60-40 backfill-fire rate.
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Some people don’t want to be SWE and do what to be QA. Getting laid off hopefully allowed then time to find a new job while getting some severance.
We gave amazing severance (near Google level), and chatting with some of the ex-QAs I'm friends with, they kinda Quiet Quitted and we're looking to early retirement, so power to them. Gotta love the Age of 55 exemption