It turns out that Google's post-pandemic reckoning not only affected Google's hardware team responsible for the Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products, but it also affected Google's core engineering teams and Google Assistant. Google just confirmed The edge which has eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, that is, Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few.”
And those are just the cuts we know about. We asked Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the full and total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, but she stopped responding at the time and only confirmed existing layoff reports in 9to5Google and Traffic lights. technology/google-layoffs.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share”>The New York Times He also reported on the layoffs of the engineering team.
When we spoke with Mencini this afternoon about Google's hardware layoffs, she didn't mention the other layoffs, but she did write that “several of our teams made changes to be more efficient and work better” and that “some teams continue to improve.” make these types of organizational changes, which include some eliminations of roles at a global level.”
So there may be more, and Google may be trying to spread the bad news rather than have it come all at once. It was made public during Epic against Google Proof that Google is among the companies trying to seed stories to shape the news. I find it… interesting, at least, that 9to5Google and Traffic lights He wrote scoops on Google hardware layoffs and Google insights team layoffs respectively, around the same time, each without mentioning the other.
However, speaking of bigger picture, Google is a huge company. Parent company Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30, 2023, so roughly 1,000 job cuts would represent only about half a percent of the company's total.
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