Man I was hoping 2024 would look nicer for the job market but it looks like the trend is not stopping
Yeah, several layoff announcements here today.
It's nice that they at least waited until after the X-mas shopping season.
Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams
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#52I always had a special place for Google in my heart, since 2008. And never thought they would lay people off. It's sad really, despite I never having worked with them. I feel pretty gloomy about tech career overall. Is it even worth continuing to learn fundamentals and stuff?
Having lived through a recession or two, this is probably the first time I'm seriously thinking about a change of career (to do what else, of course, is the question).
There's lots of people here whistling in the dark, but honestly the past year has felt more like a sea change in the industry than a temporary downturn. We can blame AI hype or interest rate changes, but probably it's more people taking a serious look at tech for once (whether big corps like Google or little startups) and seeing how much is just not that profitable or ever likely to be. Lots of naked swimmers in the tech industry.
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#53What are the severance packages like this time?
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Which of their own projects took off? E.g. Android and Maps were acquisitions IIRC. Maybe Google+?
Gmail
Then Microsoft, Netflix, FB, Apple, Dell, HP, Xerox would look like genius and way more excessively innovative if you can only name, gmail. Even that was a bit copy from yahoo and outlook mail back then. Plus, you have just indirectly praised Marrisa for her greatness involving in gmail back then.
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#55After hearing for years and years that Google hires for people first, and then assigns you a team, this is a big surprise! Somehow all the worst performers at Google ended up on the same teams and they had to fire them en masse? Or is Google just another tech company now?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, several layoff announcements here today.
It's nice that they at least waited until after the X-mas shopping season.
I know a software developer that was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. With only 2 weeks of severance pay (after being at the company for ~7 years).
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#59Useless C-level executives focusing on short term gains from RIFs rather than innovating. G is just a shadow of it’s former self. I can’t wait for the great G disruption
G disruption already arrived, with ChatGPT and Bing copilot, search now has a superior challenger/disruptor it has lacked for over a decade of G incumbency.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's nice that they at least waited until after the X-mas shopping season.
I know a software developer that was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. With only 2 weeks of severance pay (after being at the company for ~7 years).
Ouch :( That's rough, sorry to hear that...