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Good to see a $2T market cap company doesn't have enough revenue to retrain and reassign these employees. I'd hate to think what the shareholders would have to
by ohthatsnotright 2y ago
Good to see a $2T market cap company doesn't have enough revenue to retrain and reassign these employees. I'd hate to think what the shareholders would have to endure had they not done layoffs.
- m00x 2y agoMany Google layoffs were just teams shutting down and employees had 2-3 months to team match. Google hired way too much during pandemic. From what I hear from G friends, this is likely a low performer prune.
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- Ancalagon 2y agoThis has been the message for all these layoffs - thousands of people. How many low performers did Google hire? Where's the accountability at the leadership level for this failure?
- jbaczuk 2y agoSure the leadership probably failed too, but don't the "performers" have any accountability?
- zzzbra 2y agoif it's a percentage based cut then it's predetermined in a sense. leadership is just doing this as a blood sacrifice to the animal spirits of the market.
- bloppe 2y agoIf only 1% of Google employees are low performers, that's thousands of people.
- valiant55 2y agoI'm not sure how much hiring they did during the pandemic but cirac 2019 they had under 60k non-TVCs.
- wongarsu 2y agoThey hired a lot and employ roughly twice as many people as they did in 2018. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-time-google-employees/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...
- bsimpson 2y agoThis is absolutely not a "low performer prune." This is cost-saving bullshit. They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros. The talent and the institutional knowledge of some of those people makes the decision flabbergasting. If you click over to the Python thread, you'll see that the victims include a member of the Python Steering Council and the maintainers of PyType. These aren't low-performers; they're people who are an integral part of the Python community.
- snapcaster 2y agoIntegral part of python community != valuable to a corporation right? I don't see how things not related to job duties or generating profit for a company are points against "low performer" label
- bsimpson 2y agoYou don't see how having the people whose job it is to maintain a large company's Python infrastructure be literal members of the Python governing council is "valuable" or "related to job duties"? From the pytype homepage: > Thousands of projects at Google rely on pytype to keep their Python code well-typed and error-free.
- ranger_danger 2y ago> They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros. How do you know those people still weren't low performers?
- sebazzz 2y agoIsn't this just like Microsoft, skimming the bottom X% off? They might be great software developers, but an organisation that always skims off the lowest X% percent in an attempt to only keep awesome and 10X developers.
- smrtinsert 2y agoUnions, now! Funny how the people that actually created that value are the ones that get laid off while someone else gets a yacht.
- kabes 2y agoHow much value has flutter created for Google?
- rswskg 2y agoor dart for that matter
- Apocryphon 2y agohttps://news.dartlang.org/2016/10/google-adsense-angular-dart.html https://news.dartlang.org/2016/10/google-adsense-angular-dar...
- nox101 2y agoDoesn't flutter do it's own rendering in canvas meaning you can't easily scape the page for info? Seems like flutter is in direct competition with Google's main income source, search.
- doublepg23 2y agoWhen I worked a union job the ones “creating value” didn’t stay.
- fancyfredbot 2y agoBeing laid off is terrible and I don't want to minimise the suffering it's causing for those involved. However Google had 55,000 more employees in 2022 than it did in 2020, an increase of around 33%. It seems possible they actually didn't have enough for all these people to do. The company could easily afford to have kept these people on. But if, as seems likely, these people are talented individuals with lots of potential,then keeping them in roles where there's no opportunity to be productive would have had downsides too. It still sucks to get made redundant though.