I know as much as you do https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-trims-hundreds-of-jobs-as-it-marshalls-resources-for-ai-6558298c?st=vu8tlw72b4dzmys&reflink=article_copyURL_share
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/10/google-reorganizing-hardware/ From the report, 3 hardware teams from acquired companies have been running as separate entities, a re-org to streamline operation makes a lot of sense. Mostly hardware folks impacted from cancelled AR project. No need to be an alarmist.
Wrong. Folks have been laid off across various orgs, my org (Ads) got an email saying they’ve let people go. My friend and his entire team were cut and they were non-hardware team
The articles seem to talk about hundreds of jobs being impacted. With so much talk on blind makes it sound way more similar to the scale of last year’s layoffs. I wonder which is more accurate here?
Last year was 12k. Not even close
Glad to hear you think so. Hope this was much smaller and not part of a chain or anything.
Why does TT need more swe? It's the same dumb thing
Stop Tiktok, posting everywhere make it cheap.
Any clue which teams in Assistant? Is it because of Bard /LLM or just general cost cutting efforts?
What was google ar team cooking all these years after google glass? Just curious question.
They had a demo of real time language translation projected on the AR glasses at Google IO in 2022
Thats long back, any llm/mixed model can do it now
What all roles and teams were affected? How many people are affected?
Maybe a paranoid question but does anyone know if HR takes into account how much employees are putting towards 401k, ESPP, etc when deciding who to lay off?
That’s an odd question but short answer is no. Those are peanuts 🥜 compared to company cost.
I feel that it's also due to a single kind of CEOs being hired for all tech companies like Microsoft Google Adobe Twitter Tesla. They don't have any empathy for employees, their kids, are spineless before their bosses (or boards) and have lofty personal financial goals.
Biotech companies have been laying off about the same volume and rate as high tech. It's just business as usual until there are job protection measures or unions come into the picture. Not saying it's a good thing btw.
Seems like too many rest and vesters. Have been seeing a lot of people talking about how they hardly do anything at G these days. Nest hasn’t really been progressing much over the past 5 years. Although neither has many other smart home competitors hence huge Alexa layoffs last year… 🍿 But best wishes to all those impacted.
Tell me Google rejected you without telling me Google rejected you.
@bxugajk is just rubbing it in they didn't get laid off, maybe next round 😂