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Why would Google even take the risk of this PR, vs. just moving these people into R&D inside the Cloud group? I feel like this clickbait headline will frighten
by btown 7y ago
Why would Google even take the risk of this PR, vs. just moving these people into R&D inside the Cloud group? I feel like this clickbait headline will frighten markets more than the bloated headcount expense.
- qeqeqeqe 7y agoAmazon lets people go regularly, I don't get what the issue is.
- austhrow743 7y agoGoogle has recently had a leak about potentially cutting cloud. Afaik Amazon hasn't.
- rvnx 7y agoBut isn't Cloud their biggest growth opportunity ?
- seneca 7y agoAmazon doesn't have a reputation for shutting down projects, and no one has any reason to doubt Amazon's long term ability to execute on a cloud platform.
- shokobo 7y agoYou're assuming it's R&D folks, I've seen one person tweet that it happened to them and they were in marketing.