Does it really matter? Even $10 million net worth is enough to not worry about most of the things that the average employee thinks about.
They're often not saying who is being laid off. A bunch of engineers? Sales & marketing? I doubt that any of these companies (besides Amazon) even employ significant amount of low-wage staff, they get those via a staffing agency to avoid benefits and public responsibility for mistreatment.
I can guarantee you no tech writer has made $1 million in salary or compensation in two years.
I assume DO didn't have 11% technical writers. These numbers are hard to judge if you don't know who got laid off.
DO had invested a lot over the last few years into expanding its technical content library as a SEO strategy. They seem to have completely backed out of that investment.
Coyier's $4M exit was nice, sure. Built on 15 years of work, though, alongside his primary job being a developer/designer and CodePen founder who also wrote, not as a full-time writer.
Still standing by my guarantee that no technical writer here got north of $1M of salary or compensation for two years of work. Not even close. If any got north of $500k they're both role models and were probably overpaid for the market.
1: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bphogan_hey-all-a-whole-bunch...