I got laid off today. I opened my laptop, had no access to my calendar, emails, etc! Tried opening an internal website, and I got redirected to “offboarding” website where I was informed that my role was impacted by layoffs! They send a letter to my personal email at 2am PST, which I didn’t see till later today. My teammates who wanted to say goodbye had to reach out to me via LinkedIn! We were asked not to come to the office and said if we have personal belongings, we need to submit a request to have them shipped to our home! It just feels unreal and honestly, inhumane!
Your next role awaits you. Don’t take it too personal. Goodluck !!!
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Wow thats a new one - login to work and get redirected to the layoff off boarding page. Kudos Google!!
Probably had to solve a captcha and watch a 30 second ad first.
Some frontend guy wrote software for that. He must be feeling shitty
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Hang in there mate. This too shall pass. Just don’t lose your mind.
At Amazon we had two months of agonizing wait of when would the layoffs happen, and 10 days ago a firm date of 18,000 to be cut but no idea who. I’m very sorry that you were laid off but I’d take a quick cut than a drawn out anxiety filled 2 months.
Yeah not sure the Amazon way is better but Google could have at least waited until daybreak on the west coast to send layoff notices.
Both crappy, and I guess it’s based on personal preference cuz others could have searched during the lead up/ cut back spending etc
I know it sucks and feels inhumane but treat this as a breakup where you thought it was going well while your partner thought otherwise. sooner you get over it the better. Hang in there, better times ahead.
Absolutely inhumane
Pretty cowardly by Google to not even be given a face-to-face. No doubt things will get hard in the near term, but keep focus on the next opportunity and embrace the change! In the meantime, focus on yourself. I wish you luck but I'm sure you'll be fine.
Curious how you would manage 10k+ face to face layoff meetings at the same time. I’m not defending google actions, but would love to find out what the better alternative is
@roku Airbnb laid off like 2k out of like 7k and did do a 1:1 with skip level manager the day layoffs were announced.
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Can’t be more inhumane than Amazon
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