Samsung Electronics vs Apple: which job is safer?
Layoff risk for Engineering roles in India, scored this morning from confirmed layoffs, WARN filings, earnings, hiring and news signals.
Samsung Electronics
005930.KS • Consumer Electronics
- 7-day move
- +2
- Employee reports
- 1 in 30d
- Safer than
- 23% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 1 · 100 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Jul 19, 2026, 100 roles.
Full Samsung Electronics reportApple
AAPL • Consumer Hardware
- 7-day move
- +16
- Employee reports
- 1 in 30d
- Safer than
- 13% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 1 · 200 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Aug 21, 2026, 200 roles.
Full Apple reportSamsung Electronics vs Apple, signal by signal
| Signal | Samsung Electronics | Apple |
|---|---|---|
| Layoff risk score | 37 / 100 | 47 / 100 |
| Risk band | MODERATE | MODERATE |
| 7-day move | +2 | +16 |
| 30-day move | -3 | +17 |
| Confirmed layoffs (1 yr) | 1 | 1 |
| Disclosed roles cut (1 yr) | 100 | 200 |
| WARN notices (7 d) | 0 | 3 |
| Layoff headlines (7 d) | 0 | 18 |
| Employee sentiment | stable | nervous |
| Employee-reported layoffs (30 d) | 1 | 1 |
| Employee mood votes (30 d) | 1 · 0% worried | 5 · 30% worried |
Green marks the safer side of each row. Lower is better on every risk signal except open roles and revenue growth, where more is the healthier reading.
90-day risk trend, side by side
Should you switch from Samsung Electronics to Apple?
Samsung Electronics scores 37/100 (moderate risk) against Apple's 47/100 (moderate) for Engineering roles in India — a 10-point gap. What sits behind the gap: Apple has confirmed 200 roles across 1 announcement in the past year against 100 roles across 1 announcement at Samsung Electronics, and Samsung Electronics's risk fell 3 points over the last 30 days while Apple's rose 17 points.
Direction matters as much as level. Over the last 30 days Samsung Electronics's risk score fell 3 points and Apple's rose 17 points. That is widening the gap in Samsung Electronics's favour, so today's verdict is being reinforced rather than eroded.
On confirmed events, Samsung Electronics has 1 confirmed layoff totalling 100 disclosed roles on Jul 19. Apple has 1 confirmed layoff totalling 200 disclosed roles on Aug 21. Confirmed cuts are the heaviest input to the score and they decay on a half-life rather than expiring, so a large recent round keeps weighing on a company for months while an old one fades gradually.
In the last seven days: Samsung Electronics added 2 points: a still-weighted cut of 100 roles on Jul 19 and last quarter missed estimates by 1.7%. Apple added 16 points: 200 roles confirmed cut on Aug 21 and 3 WARN notices filed with state labour departments this week.
Employee sentiment, blended from anonymous reports and the data signals, reads stable at Samsung Electronics and nervous at Apple, though on only 2 employee reports between them in the last 30 days. Sentiment moves earlier than confirmed events but is far noisier, so treat it as a leading indicator rather than a score.
One caveat worth stating plainly: this compares employer-level risk, not your risk. Any engineering role on a revenue-critical team at the riskier company can be safer than a cost-centre role at the safer one. Read the score as the weather, not the forecast for your specific seat.