{"id":683407,"date":"2025-08-05T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:25:21","slug":"three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining employees on the team, reports The Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the latest bout of whiplash that Windsurf employees have faced after a tumultuous stretch for the company. The startup was initially almost acquired by OpenAI, then lost its CEO, co-founder, and research leads to Google in a $2.4 billion deal known as a reverse-acquihire (where Google hired the key talent rather than buying the company), before ultimately getting acquired by Cognition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time of the acquisition, Cognition stated that 100% of Windsurf employees would receive financial compensation as part of the deal and stressed that the company was excited to bring on Windsurf\u2019s \u201cworld-class people\u201d to develop top-notch coding tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s becoming clear that Windsurf\u2019s intellectual property, not its talent, was the real buy.<\/p>\n

According to an email The Information viewed, employees were given until August 10 to decide whether they want to take the buyout, which amounts to nine months of salary. Those who choose to stay are reportedly required to spend six days at the office and clock 80+ hour weeks \u2013 draconian conditions that have become table stakes among workers at top AI firms.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t believe in work-life balance\u2014building the future of software engineering is a mission we all care so deeply about that we couldn\u2019t possibly separate the two,\u201d wrote Cognition CEO Scott Wu in the email.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch has reached out to Cognition for more details. <\/p>\n

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Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining employees on the team, reports The Information. This is the latest bout of whiplash that Windsurf employees have faced after a tumultuous stretch for the company. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-11.02.07AM.png?resize=1200,645","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,17531,156816,70917,156861,155816],"class_list":["post-683407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-cognition","tag-devin","tag-startups","tag-vibe-coding","tag-windsurf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}