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Many 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
by m00x 2y ago
Many 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.