Well, these are also short-term gains. When developers are your mainstay and the culture tanks everything else goes with it. Despite these cuts they say that

Well, these are also short-term gains. When developers are your mainstay and the culture tanks everything else goes with it. Despite these cuts they say that Google's offering multi-million deals to hang on to talent that may go to a hotter startup for less and those are just the stars. Potential stars probably think of Google like working at a bank, stable but boring.