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If they have cleared out Google's 6-7-8 rounds of interviews.. they can always be trained to move to/start into new projects no?

• Someone 4y ago
  That requires there to be enough new projects.
  • saidinesh5 4y ago
    The thing that bums me out about all this is that Google used to be a company where so many great products/projects came out of their 20% time. They used to hire "generalists" so they can be of use in wide segments of their company. Now they are laying people off while still being a profitable company. Something definitely changed in their company's DNA.
  • asvitkine 4y ago
    Not necessarily entirely new projects, could be existing efforts that would just be new to those employees. Doubling down and investing in the areas that matter...
  • crote 4y ago
    Google hired 10.000 people in Q2 2022 alone. Despite claiming to have a hiring freeze, they hired even more people in Q3. It looks to me like they were hiring people without even considering whether there was work for them after accounting for the upcoming project culling, leading to the current need to fire 12k people. If they did their hiring freeze properly, they could have probably avoided a significant fraction of these firings.