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From what I understand EDR team was absorbed internally, with most of them going to Brain. So technically they just shutdown EDR without really laying off the s
by alsodumb 4y ago
From what I understand EDR team was absorbed internally, with most of them going to Brain. So technically they just shutdown EDR without really laying off the small team. I could be wrong though.
Edit: Looks like I was wrong. My interactions were only with a few folks on the research side which may not be representative of the entire EDR team.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoWhen I was there the team was roughly 50% contractors (as many as they could have). I wonder how they fared. Right when it happened I spoke to a couple of friends. One mentioned they might be laid off or might move to another team. I suspect there is some mix of layoffs and team changes.
- alphabot314 4y ago> I could be wrong though. Yep, you are. A small percentage of the EDR team (and mainly contractors) were absorbed by Google Research - the vast majority of the team was let go.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoEDR: "we got hundreds of people working frantically on the design, programming, production, and testing of a general-purpose, environment-sensing and acting, learning robot. Hardware is hard." R@G: "K we're taking over. We can hire, like, 5 of you" EDR people: "lol ok good luck with that, bye!"