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They probably didn't get to the point of making $18B a quarter by keeping on a bunch of organizational dead weight.
by oh_sigh 3y ago
They probably didn't get to the point of making $18B a quarter by keeping on a bunch of organizational dead weight.
- morkalork 3y agoIt's a failure of creativity and leadership if they can't think of something productive to do with their world class talent and infrastructure.
- hyperliner 3y ago[dead]
- flavius29663 3y agoGoogle never had layoffs before 2022, so maybe they did?
- onion2k 3y agoRegardless of anything else a layoff at Google is an admission that the leadership team have nothing for those people to do that's worth keeping them around for. They're 'dead weight' because Google's ideas, ambitions, and taste for audacious ground-breaking projects have died as well. We should all be a little sad about that.
- oh_sigh 3y agoMaybe Google never had the ambition or ideas to employ 200,000+ people. How big were they in the golden era that you're imagining?