> The number of Grow postings is a fraction of a fraction of what it was before August '22. Entirely fair, heard the same from others. The first time I opened

> The number of Grow postings is a fraction of a fraction of what it was before August '22. Entirely fair, heard the same from others. The first time I opened Grow ever was in the first month of 2023, so I wouldn’t have noticed it myself. > A massive number of your colleagues were let go in January and about as much have been let go since in individual firings. It disgusted me that your reaction amounts to "Overblown! I transferred […]” I am sorry, what? I was talking solely about transfers after August of 2022. Yeah, there were some periods between then and now where transfers were nearly impossible. Yeah, I had to send about 40+ applications on Grow over the course of a couple months before I heard back from just one (which, luckily enough, worked out). But saying they are straight up impossible is unfair, given that almost everyone from my old team who didn’t get laid off managed to find a transfer after a few months of active searching (which, from what I heard from those who used Grow for years before, is indeed way more difficult than it used to be before August 2022). And layoffs weren’t overblown at all, and I never claimed they were. In fact, they were partially responsible for my old team disintegrating. Half my team got laid off, picked on an entirely random basis, and even the manager had no idea until the morning of. Me and one teammate were working together on this rather large and high impact project for about a month, we got it done ahead of time by thursday evening, and the team lead decided to celebrate it with an orgwide announcement of it and a demo the day after (friday). He sent out the email around 2am and went to sleep. We all woke up next morning, and that teammate of mine that I worked on that project with got laid off. > “[…]Btw here's a rant about how much I hated my old team at my current job that flattens everyone to characters!" I didn’t hate my old team, I actually liked the people I worked with a lot. I still maintain fairly close friendships with some of them. But through some game of thrones level incompetence and blunders from the leadership above (above the skip level), our manager got pushed out (and transferred to another team) and replaced with a person who had neither expertise nor was a good cultural fit. One specific example of what i mean about culture fit here, since that term is often used to cover up some discriminatory behaviors (which was not even remotely the case here): he decided to introduce Agile for real to the team, with an assigned scrum master, sprints, asked us to take some Agile classes, and went hard on all the theatrics of it rather than having time to do real planning or actual work. We spent hours and hours each week on this. That was the only time I’ve seen or even heard of something like that at Google. The team lead, who was the most senior person on the team at the time and pretty much held the team like glue, ended up getting fed up and transferring to another team a couple months later. Which was a major blow, because he was the one catching up on the planning and actually making sure things get done and properly (all while shielding the rest of the ICs on the team from the politics and most annoyances). After that, it all just snowballed in a complete disintegration. The most senior IC on the team at that point was an L4 who joined just 1 year before. Just last month, the last original member of the team from 1.5 years prior messaged me that he was leaving, and he indeed left. To underline, I think the team and the people on it were great, and I am not complaining about them at all. I complain about the dysfunction of that particular org resulting in the entire team losing all of its original members from just 1.5 years before.