These things are often not uniformly distributed. Most of the recent layoffs affected teams within Google Assistant, many of which lost more than half of their

These things are often not uniformly distributed. Most of the recent layoffs affected teams within Google Assistant, many of which lost more than half of their headcount. So if you were in Google Assistant, your chance of being laid off was much higher. Of course, you could counter with, "just don't join Google Assistant lmao", but it's not clear to an outsider what the fortunes of various teams will be. Heck, it's often not even clear to the VPs running those very teams, to say nothing of the rank and file engineers there. So a bit more compassion please, thank you.