Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs • Hacker News Board

As I have been saying for a while Google, Amazon, Facebook, all these companies are on the decline. We have allowed them to become so big that they don't fall fast but it's very apparent that they would have been disrupted if they were normal sized like companies were in the past.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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Post by abnercoimbre » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:36 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #16

Engineers affected. The coasting day care is over and Google is in code red wartime mode in a state of panic. Sorry. The market is brutal and it does not care. No one is safe, not even Google.

You think mass layoffs will start slowing down, or was last year a trend that's barely getting started? I just wish I could find well-educated guesses (because I know it's hard to predict definitively) but news sites are typically shallow / sensational.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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Post by brnt » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:39 AM UTC

abnercoimbre wrote: post #18

rvz wrote: post #16

Engineers affected. The coasting day care is over and Google is in code red wartime mode in a state of panic. Sorry. The market is brutal and it does not care. No one is safe, not even Google.

You think mass layoffs will start slowing down, or was last year a trend that's barely getting started? I just wish I could find well-educated guesses (because I know it's hard to predict definitively) but news sites are typically shallow / sensational.

Is money cheap again? No. There is no guessing, just some hysteresis.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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Post by ulfw » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:50 AM UTC

Google stock is up 56% compared to a year go.

And yet Sundar is happy to destroy morale by keeping to fire people.

after saying "Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, Says Laying Off 12,000 Workers Was the Worst Moment in the Company's 25-Year History"

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/googles-ceo-sundar-pichai-say...