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Right, that doesn't quite make sense. The previous layoff was all across the board and likely trimming lower rated engineers across the whole company. Wiping a
by ehsankia 3y ago
Right, that doesn't quite make sense. The previous layoff was all across the board and likely trimming lower rated engineers across the whole company. Wiping a specific team, with potentially top tier talent, makes no sense.
Are we sure this is actually general engineers? The headline only says "working on". It could be people doing very specific work, like prompt validation, QA, etc.
- sokoloff 3y agoI would wager a fair amount that Google took that lens and very likely "saved" much of the talent that they had previously identified as top tier (in some cases months or quarters before this round of layoffs; in others during the layoff prep).
- Rebelgecko 3y agoI don't think the previous layoffs took perf/grad stack rankings into account
- alphabot314 3y ago> The previous layoff was all across the board and likely trimming lower rated engineers across the whole company. This is simply untrue for the Jan 2023 Alphabet layoffs. Entire orgs (>200 FTE) were let go regardless of individual performance.
- hashtag-til 3y agoThat's mostly to reduce their legal liability, rather than anything else. Poor management, nonetheless.