At Google, if your project is shutdown does that typically end in layoffs or does Google usually try to keep and relocate you? No, this is not regarding any particular project shutdown at Google. Entirely hypothetical. TC: 170K
Yes my project was ‘moved’. Most ppl are safe. Some contractors were let go or left voluntarily.
It is very rare that the people on the cut project end up unemployed in any big tech company unless they were already seen as low performers. It's just too hard to hire good people for that to make sense. So in almost every big tech company when this happens people are in one way or another given new jobs on other teams. Sometimes the whole team is reassigned to a new problem. Sometimes individual engineers are matched with new teams.
It entirely depends on how well the company is doing and how much is being cut. If it is one project out of a hundred, redeploying people is no problem, but if every other project is on the chopping block, everyone will be let go (save maybe a few). Witnessed this many many times over the years.
Depends on the reason... But most likely FT employees with be reshuffled while contractors will get let go.
Full time employees are pretty safe in large companies like Google.
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Can you provide the name of the project? That part of the context seems important.