I'm noticing that many but not all folks got laid off in some teams OR such teams still have incoming hires (from previous accepted offers). Just trying to understand the business reasoning because it doesn't make sense. Are the remaining folks there to KTLO? For example, if the layoff reasoning is that the project is not currently revenue generating, why not can the whole team. -1 data point on LI where most but not all of the team was laid off (incubator project). Blind data points: -https://www.teamblind.com/post/Is-it-a-horrible-idea-to-join-Google-now-RQKWgEh3 -https://www.teamblind.com/post/Boss-called-to-chew-me-out-qBOq5OMQ Update - Per most upvoted answers, below makes sense: For large teams, lay off enough people to make the product profitable. Lay-off rate = ~6% For small teams (these are ambitious products being closed), lay-off almost all and remaining few people can carry out the product closure and customer transition. Lay-off rate = ~60-70%. Remaining ~40-30% folks will get laid-off or transferred over next few months.
They probably fired the high earners to make room for new
To remove top earners and reduce wages
Layoff enough people to make the product profitable or close sounds right to me.
If you have a project that you want to close, you need a few people to support transitioning users to other products and then carry out the closure. It can take upto 6 months. If you layoff 100% people from that team, some other team will need to ramp up to do the same which will be more costly.
Yes they did exactly that in my prev company when they discontinued a major product. Laid off teams around the product over several months, like 4-5.
Makes sense. Perhaps these are the teams to avoid as a new hire?
That means the team has very limited business value the company.
With the scale of Google's products, is laying off 6% of a large team really gonna make a dent in their product's profitability?
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