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Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
- biohax2015 4y agoWow, some serious high level employees here. Nobody is safe.
- cute_boi 4y agoReminder to myself that nobody is indispensable to the company. Every one can be replaced.
- irrational 4y agoI’ve been through 4 layoffs over 22+ years. In my experience, it is the managers who are the most vulnerable and the individual contributors who are the least vulnerable.
- taeric 4y agoMy experience is the opposite, oddly. Middle management is at risk, sure. But upper management is not. Upper level contributors, though? Same risk as lower level contributors.
- nine_zeros 4y agoDirectors are middle managers. VP and above are upper management. They don't get laid off just like that, unless the entire org chart below the VP is being dissolved.
- scruple 4y agoAnecdotes, but... A former BigTechCo employer (I quit early 2022) had (~10% of staff) layoffs the other week. At least 3 different engineering VPs and 1 SVP were let go that I know of, including my former manager. None of the orgs or teams under them were dissolved. The team I left behind remained completely intact otherwise, though they obviously have a new reporting structure. Lots of other Director-level and below were let go, as well. Impacts to IC-level employees was minimal in the engineering organization but common in other departments, e.g. product and marketing.
- CydeWeys 4y agoI saw some VPs and Directors let go as well. Frankly, the org chart still makes sense without them being present (all of their previous reports simply report now to who their manager used to be). Consider how deep the org chart has grown in a company like Google, and how it's probably not really necessary to have such depth. It's easy to rejigger the org chart by increasing the branch factor and decreasing the depth -- communication will be more efficient this way, and you cut costs as you have fewer total nodes to achieve the same number of actual people doing the work (vs people managing the people doing the work). At least these higher-ups are gonna be OK, as they were making obscene amounts of money ($1M+/yr) and have all been in the industry for awhile, thus are well-situated financially. Every single one of them I know owns at least one home and routinely does all sorts of expensive traveling. Contrast that with laying off someone earlier in their career for whom a layoff might actually impose real financial hardships.
- scruple 4y agoI sympathize with them to some degree. I'd like to think that when I'm their age, I'll be able to walk out of the front door on my own terms. That said, as you correctly point out, obscene is the word of the day. I worked with these people for nearly 10 years, I know entirely too much about their personal histories and lives. They're each multi-millionaires, they're each fully capable of retirement today... Or, hell, many years ago, for that matter. They're going to be just fine once their bruised egos heal.
- CydeWeys 4y ago> They're each multi-millionaires, they're each fully capable of retirement today... Or, hell, many years ago, for that matter. That's the funny thing. I was talking to one of them who I know for a fact is very well off, and he was saying he kind of wished that he had been laid off, as it would've been a huge payout (because of tenure) that would've allowed him to not need to find another job for almost a full year, which he'd do at a leisurely pace. In my mind I'm thinking, you'd still want to work?! Dude, you're loaded, you're over 50, why not just retire if that happened?? But maybe he wouldn't know what to do with himself. I'm not nearly at conventional retirement age yet, but despite having enough money to be financially independent already, I'm not considering retirement, as I too wouldn't know what to do with myself.
- rubidium 4y agoOr cut in half and merged. That’s mostly how director/ vp positions disappear. Two groups merge to one, and any redundancy gets eliminated.
- Scoundreller 4y agoIn a union (and possibly in a sane non-union) environment, in that situation you get demoted and can bump someone below you, who can then bump someone below them, until the lowest rank gets eliminated (or a vacant position just becomes un-vacant). Makes sense when managers are hired from within and retain the ability to do the job of the people they were managing. And 10000000% makes sense from a peter principle point of view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle Definitely does not work when managers are parachuted in from elsewhere or in a fungible "a manager is a manager and can manage any team". That happens in government a lot.
- abledon 4y agoWas scrolling thinking they'd be all tech related, and then scrolled into a big bunch of 'massage therapist'
- Scoundreller 4y agoThat was about 1% of the layoffs
- notyourwork 4y agoMy take is in general you are right. No human is irreplaceable. However, what I really translate this to be is you should consider the business viability of the org/department/team you work in. The things that don't add value, the things that cost money, the long risky bets will be first to get scrutinized. If you are making money and not a cost center for your company, you are likely safe during times of economic turmoil. Being on profitable and important to core business teams is great during any time. I remember a team I was on which was responsible for a large amount of yearly revenue. You can imagine we never got questioned about team lunches or miscellaneous snack and drink reimbursements even though there was a company policy to instill frugality. When times are good, times are good. When times are tough, you want to be a money maker.
- taeric 4y agoSad to see the long risky bets getting cut. Excess perks, I don't care about. I can buy my own drinks and coffee. But a company that isn't taking bigger and bigger risks is a company that is at risk and just ignoring it.
- semi-extrinsic 4y agoSurely this only applies to a limited set of companies where the products cannot have meaningfully negative impacts on people. You would for instance not say this about a company producing (software for) elevators, or airplanes, or pharmaceuticals. An interesting question then follows: are those companies where you can take larger and larger risks without adversely affecting people, actually adding anything of real value? Or is it all broken window fallacy? This is not to say that e.g. Google is a useless company. Surely its products have provided a lot of benefit from people. But it is also clear that taking risks as Google can cause clear negative consequences for people. So the question is more for a hypothetical company that can take arbitrarily large risks.
- taeric 4y agoI don't think releasing shoddy things is taking risks. That is being reckless. Taking risks is working on new products to expand the company. Possibly refined versions of existing products, possibly explorations of related offerings. Could be green field recreation of what you have to see if you can make it better. Could be isolated improvements. Such that, if you think it is only risky to possibly harm someone... I don't think we are talking about the same things.
- omoikane 4y agoI echo the "nobody is safe" sentiment, especially after reading this other comment about how layoffs are not related to performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34562615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34562615
- luckylion 4y agoBusiness unit performance is much more important than individual performance. Who cares if you do amazing work in some nerdy obscure niche that doesn't make money and never will?
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- saagarjha 4y agoI mean, you could offer those engineers transfers to not waste their talent…
- luckylion 4y agoThat's what many companies do, but if you're cutting whole business units, and lots of them, you probably don't have as many openings elsewhere. It's a good incentive to generally gravitate towards projects/teams that are contributing to profits if you're an engineer though, and not just look for another position when your is being axed.
- Blackthorn 4y agoMaybe it'll finally kill off some peoples' just world fallacy interpretation of layoffs? We can hope anyway, for the future of everyone's employability everywhere.
- jarjoura 4y agoOne positive is that all these high-level laid off engineers are now going disperse into all kinds of smaller companies and inject life back into the startup world. For the last decade Google, Meta, et.al. have been sucking the power out of innovative ideas and mostly killing them off if they didn't deliver at the scale they operated at.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThis is actually a known and documented bright side of an unfortunate situation. There are usually silver linings. It’s actually one of the reasons economists point to the US economy being much more vibrant than in Europe for example.
- paganel 4y agoRemains to be seen if those people haven't been "transformed" too much during their FAANG stay. You can't build a successful startup while expecting to have Google's infrastructure and best-work practices from the very beginning.
- s1mon 4y agoPart of the reason for this is to avoid any possibility that they can be sued for age discrimination. I was part of a 10% of a 600 person company layoff (based in California, but with offices in Europe and Asia). We all got a list of the people laid off (without names) with job title, and age. This was apparently a legal cover-your-ass requirement. They made sure to spread the pain across the young and old. If they just got rid of the very high level (read: expensive) employees, they would likely be older - which can lead to age discrimination suits. If they just got rid of really junior people because they're so junior that they aren't that valuable yet, that's also a potential age discrimination suit. So they spread out the seniority (and ages).
- Thorrez 4y agoThere's no federal law against discriminating against young people. Maybe there is at a state level. https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination
- MichaelZuo 4y agoHow many L8+ personnel does Google have? It's hard to gauge whether the layoffs at the senior level are large or small.
- ftufek 4y agoL5 used to be the terminal level, at least for most engineers. L8+ is very rare in my experience.
- jefftk 4y agoWhen I joined Google my TL was an L6 on the engineering track, 10 years ago. My vague memory of the engineering ladder when I joined went up to L9.
- mikebenfield 4y ago"Terminal level" doesn't mean the highest level.
- jefftk 4y agoInteresting! I don't think I'd seen the term before, but it does seem standard: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/23/pace/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/23/pace/ With that usage, the point at which the company stops being "up or out", it was L5 when I joined, and L4 when I left.
- kodah 4y agoTerminal level generally indicates a glass ceiling that most folks can't rise above. Senior and Staff are generally terminal levels for the rest of the industry.
- saagarjha 4y agos/can’t/aren’t ”expected” to/
- fragmede 4y agoUnclear what the .cool address adds here, the underlying airtable link is https://airtable.com/shrF23JdDHMQ3QDyw/tblzWFbZQv6bVjqqr https://airtable.com/shrF23JdDHMQ3QDyw/tblzWFbZQv6bVjqqr
- judge2020 4y ago> Airtable.cool is a tool that gives you link previews and analytics for your existing Airtable shared view links Basically opengraph tags with a way to track the hit count. https://airtable.cool/ https://airtable.cool/
- legostormtroopr 4y agoI was curious too - so I checked out the airtable.cool site which says this: > Airtable.cool is a tool that gives you link previews and analytics for your existing Airtable shared view links. > Airtable.cool is purely just a wrapper/user interface addition to Airtable.com shared views. We wrap the airtable.com form in an iframe so that previews and link tracking works, but all the data is hosted on Airtable.
- 6510 4y agoit makes it not work for me
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoI'm Steven, the uploader of the Airtable shared view here! I created airtable.cool as a side project for better social media previews and showing view descriptions. Didn't realize when I posted it this morning (on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenqzhang_analysis-of-google-layoffs-in-california-activity-7026578205725585408-_ucb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenqzhang_analysis-of-goog...) that it would go viral! Anyways, I think I fixed the performance issue that was causing airtable.cool to go down earlier
- statico 4y agoGreat idea! I did the same thing with ycombinator1.com
- Ephil012 4y agoDoes anyone have a link to the original WARN filing (since that would verify this airtable’s authenticity)? Tried finding it online and couldn’t
- waboremo 4y agoThink you would have to request the filings in California. You can view the list of warnings without a request of which you can find the numerous Google listings on Jan 20[1], but details I don't believe are published publicly. Follow the link, click latest listings for 2022-present, and it should open a spreadsheet in chronological order. [1] https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN/#collapse-6a96c957-65b8-4ff0-b874-e104d6bdf6ea https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN...
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoI created the Airtable base for this! Yeah you have to request records thru https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN. See https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7026578204836405248?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%2C7026578582701252608%29 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782...
- telotortium 4y agoThanks for this! I saw it on Facebook, and the person I got it from must have seen it on LinkedIn. As an Xoogler (not due to the layoff) I have an interest in this.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoGlad to hear it!
- CydeWeys 4y agoAny idea why the Page Up and Page Down buttons don't seem to be working on either of these presentation views? The experience is fundamentally broken on desktop. Having to scroll through a huge page (with a tiny scrollbar) is no fun at all when you can only do it with a mouse.
- achow 4y agoI could count 20 Massage Therapists who were impacted. Never thought these will be full time positions. Wonder what would have been their career growth plan, how was their perf eval done?
- jayd16 4y agoI'm sure they have OKRs (Orthopedic Knot Relaxation).
- sharkweek 4y agoSure but how are they tracking on their KPIs (Kinetic pliability index)
- warent 4y agoYou might applying very specific kinds of business mentality to incompatible verticals. Not everyone has "career growth" desires or expectations, or if they do, it is in very different ways. I don't think people go into the massage therapy industry thinking "I'm going to be a Director of Massage Therapy!"
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago> I don't think people go into the massage therapy industry thinking "I'm going to be a Director of Massage Therapy!" Yeah, of course not. That would be ridiculous. First you have to put in the work to make it to Senior Massage Therapist. Then Staff, Senior Staff, and finally Principal Massage Therapist — then you can do a lateral ladder transfer over to Director of Massage Therapy.
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- CydeWeys 4y agoI think they are FTEs for historical reasons. If they were to be spun up from scratch today as a new perk to be offered, I highly doubt that they would be anything other than contractors (like how the cafe staffs are run).
- cbb330 4y agoHow was this converted from WARN public records into airtable? I'm curious if I can start using it for this purpose.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoI'm Steven, the poster of this originally https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenqzhang_analysis-of-google-layoffs-in-california-activity-7026578205725585408-_ucb https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenqzhang_analysis-of-goog... - you have to request records and then EDD will email you CSVs or word doc tables that you can then copy paste into google sheets/Airtable/etc. :) . see the pinned comment on the linkedin post
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- filereaper 4y agoIncredible, Google laid off a L9 Distinguished Software Engineer. I wonder what the calculus there was. I didn't even think it was possible to layoff anyone of that caliber. Who decides that a L9 is going to be cut. Some VP who joined after the L9? The Board? The founders? Did the CEO make enough contributions to decide this cut? I'm still stunned.
- jeffbee 4y agoFor reference this is the title held by David Patterson, giant of the industry and Turing Award winner.
- danuker 4y agoWow, the guy has a Wikipedia article in 19 languages.
- andsoitis 4y agoHe is also 75 years old.
- xapata 4y agohttps://research.google/people/105290/ https://research.google/people/105290/ Still on the website.
- joshuamorton 4y agoTo clarify, since people seem to think so, he wasn't the particular person fired, just an example. Another example is Rob Pike, who was L9 when he retired in 2021.
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah I was just trying to give an example of the kinds of things you have to do to get the title. Things like "invent the computer".
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- neom 4y agoTIL; Google sure has a lot of titles. Curious, why is there SWE III but L4 (I presume level4?) or SWE II but L3? I wonder if it ever gets confusing to think about career progression there??
- kyrra 4y agoThe SWE ladder goes from L3 - L9. L5 is a place most average software engineers will stay. Getting above L6 as an individual contributor makes you a very special person.
- neom 4y agoDoes an L9 trump a "senior staff engineer"? Back in the day when I used to interview engineers, I recall staff engineer being a very senior position at big businesses.
- mstibbard 4y agoI would estimate a senior staff engineer to be an L5 or L6 at Google
- rootusrootus 4y agoAt most garden variety BigCorps that I'm aware of, these days staff engineer is basically anyone with a decent amount of experience. A step above senior, that's about it. Principal is next, and actually does have a bit more meaning, but still not _that_ special. Based on everything I've read, Google L9 easily trumps both of those positions and by a fairly large margin.
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- Ozzie_osman 4y agoA lot of people are saying this biased towards letting go of high-paying engineers. Rather, from anecdotes I've heard, there seems to have been a focus on long-tenured folk (people who have been around for 10+ years). There may have been some rationale that these folks are too comfortable, etc. But, when you let go of people who have been around that long, it sends a pretty bad message about how you treat long-standing contributors. I think it also underestimates the value those long-tenured folk bring purely by nature of having context on past decisions.
- bushbaba 4y agoWould not the folks who've been around for 10+ years have comp way higher than a more recent hire given Google's 4+ year refresher structure coupled with stock growth?
- medler 4y agoGrants vest over four years so being there longer than that doesn’t organically increase your comp or give you more benefit from stock growth. I guess it could be different for people at very high levels
- CydeWeys 4y agoPeople who have been there for longer are more likely to be a higher level though, which would mean higher total comp.
- Ozzie_osman 4y agoYes, it almost certainly correlates.
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- anoncoward604 4y agoMy complete asspull rationale when I saw the distinguished engineer got cut was that maybe they thought he wouldn't be as useful if Google tries to hard pivot into generative ai just because he was so focused on search as a topic. More generally high tenureship could come with baggage as to how they view the business and how things are just done. However, at the end of the day smart people are just smart people and even with a background in another discipline or lots of history at a company can adapt to new modalities of operation and still add value so I don't really believe it. It is something I could see a manager or other suit saying though when looking over salaries to justify the decision...
- subarctic 4y agoWow that's very detailed. This is the first I've heard of WARN. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini... it looks like they have to give people 60 days notice ahead of mass layoffs. I'm guessing part of it involves publishing a list like this of the roles of all the people who will be laid off?
- owenmarshall 4y agoThat’s generally how it works - there is the federal WARN act and state acts as well, so the details can vary, but typically the goal is to announce mass layoffs “in advance.” But the devil is in the details. Sometimes companies time their severance against WARN, so you’ll get a round of layoffs that take effect in 60 days followed by a WARN notice dated forward. Other times, companies claim an exemption to the notice period, of which there are a few.
- CydeWeys 4y agoRight, so what happened is that, almost two weeks ago now, 6,800 people in the US were, practically speaking, laid off in the middle of the night with no warning whatsoever. All of their accounts were disabled, their badges were deactivated, and they were functionally no longer employees. Legally speaking though, because of WARN, the actual status of those employees is that they are still employed for two months (three in New York because we have a better WARN Act). So they'll still be getting their pay and benefits for that period, to be compliant with the WARN Act. This is the people who are on that list.
- ehsankia 4y agoBasically the notification time was added to their severance package. 60 days + 6 months + 1 month * year of tenure
- dmak 4y agoHow does an L9 SE get laid off? I don't know much about the expectations, but if you're that high level then you're probably taking risks. Sometimes those risks pay off, sometimes they don't. Moreover, sometimes you just need time in-between for inspiration or for discovery. Any additional insight is appreciated.
- xyst 4y agoTitles are meaningless in my opinion. Just look at how many “directors” were laid off. Work at a company long enough and at some point you peak. Between an L9 and an L8, can you really tell the difference besides pay grade? Who knows, maybe that person pissed their boss off or have bad vibes to some other team director and silently raised an issue with their superior. It could all just be random. A few “bad” performance reviews at this level and compared to the other “L9s” you are disposable. Corporations don’t care about you. They only care about their board and shareholders and share price. If a RIF will pump the stock 5-8% in a recession, you bet your ass they will do it. Doesn’t matter if you are a 10 year veteran.
- dmak 4y agoIt certainly feels random
- foogazi 4y ago> How does an L9 SE get laid off? Should L9 be a tenured position ? Bad luck, performance, budget, re-org, shake up for L8s
- dmak 4y agoNot sure, but they have to be doing something right for the organization to reach that level. I'm also for shaking things up though. It's time to breath new life into these companies.
- srj 4y agoI'm stunned that so many more ICs were laid off than managers (unless I'm reading the data wrong, it didn't render well for me on mobile). It sure seems there are far more managers to begin with so it looks really disproportionate. Disclaimer: IC6 at google
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoI'm Steven, the OP of this Airtable share link (on Linkedin). there's some discussion about this on my linkedin thread, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7026578204836405248?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%2C7026595065900793856%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%2C7026600315776892928%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287026595065900793856%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%29&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287026600315776892928%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%29 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782... https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7026578204836405248?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%2C7026654679950401537%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%2C7026689300998017024%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287026654679950401537%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%29&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287026689300998017024%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7026578204836405248%29 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782... The gist is that yes, more ICs were laid off, but there are also more ICs overall.
- Romen_b 4y agoDo you have similar table/data for Microsoft, Amazon and twitter? This was an amazing statistics to see. Thank you for making it available!
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoThank you! I don't have that data, but it's easily requestable thru the CA EDD website (see my linkedin post https://bit.ly/google-warn-data https://bit.ly/google-warn-data ). The hard part is cleaning and extracting the levels from the titles which varies considerably by company
- xyst 4y agoJust goes to show that the “do no evil” corporation is just that. Another corporation that is a slave to greedy boards and shareholders that only care about the price of the stock. Cut 5% of the workforce and see immediate gains in stock. Google peaked at Google Search and Google Ads. Everything else is subpar or average (Android), with the exception of the open source contributions like Go, Kubernetes, and app containerization. One of these days FAANG will become relics and shadows of their former selves. Just like the railroad companies in the early 1900s.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoOn a scale of evil from Jesus to Stalin, laying people off is a solid Quark from DS9. I find it hard to get very riled up about it. If anything, it’s good that googlers got a dose of cold water and realized that they need to worry about losing their job, just like everybody else. The way people were chosen seems strange though. Several people noted it seemed basically random.
- pragmatick 4y agoNot sure if I agree with the rest but I love the scale.
- NovaPenguin 4y agoIt is true. If it wasn't for the side loading of Apps and app stores on Android - I would give it a hard miss!
- midoridensha 4y agoNot me. Android is an easy pick, not because Google is perfect, but because the alternative (and there is only 1 alternative) is worse in so many ways, especially for freedom. Just being able to use a web browser with proper ad-blocking and paywall-bypassing alone (Firefox Nightly) is enough to make the choice easy, not to mention being able to use an SD card for storage, being able to connect via USB to my Linux PC and download photos, I could go on and on.
- herpderperator 4y agoSo you can just buy a company's name as a domain on a new TLD without legal issues?
- detaro 4y agoBuy? yes. Keep? Depends if your use infringes on the companys rights and if it wants to cause you legal issues. A company having a trademark doesn't mean it owns every use of the word after all.
- potamic 4y agoThe other way, does every registered company have a legal right to claim the infinite domains that contain their name somewhere in the middle?
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoI'm Steven, the OP of this Airtable.cool link. Just a FYI this was originally posted on my Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7026578204836405248 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70265782... - check it out if you want to see some charts I created from this data and other discussions. Long-time lurker of HN so pleasantly surprised someone posted the Airtable.cool link here! [edit] More charts here: https://tabsoft.co/3wNYbMt https://tabsoft.co/3wNYbMt
- golem14 4y agoIt’s interesting that no one in LA (Santa Monica) got laid off, if my reading is correct.
- saagarjha 4y agoUS-MFA is Moffett Airfield (the new Bay View campus), not San Diego. That’s US-SAN.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoAh good call. Changed. Should US-MFA be grouped under US-MTV or are they separate campuses?
- saagarjha 4y agoThey are technically separate as Moffett Air Field is federal land and not in Mountain View. In practice you can cross a bridge over Stevens Creek and go from one to the other, and they share snacks and bikes so they’re essentially treated as the same campus. (I have to admit I was very confused how someone might get the acronyms all correct and misattribute the city…then I spotted that you pulled this from Google’s data.)
- saagarjha 4y agoAlso US-PLV is “Playa Vista” FWIW. US-LAX is what you’d expect it to be.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoThank you! Renamed it US-PLV (Los Angeles / Playa Vista) as suspect few outside of Socal would know where PV is
- throwawayacc100 4y agoAlso the sheet is missing entire Youtube (US-SBO San Bruno) data.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y agoOops. added
- Romen_b 4y agoIs there something similar for Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter?
- joshilaurain17 4y agoOn Jan. 20, Google parent Alphabet announced it would slash 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce. CEO Sundar Pichai said he took “full responsibility” for the cuts after a pandemic-fueled hiring spree that increased the company's workforce by 14% in 2020 and 15% in 2021 Quoted from Google.
- butz 4y agoLooks like they laid off whole team responsible for spam filtering in GMail.