There's not much info in that thread, but it reads to me that they consolidated the responsibilities of this one team into another and let the original team go.
Google lays off its Python team
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#12Same thing with the Kythe (aka Grok) team that does the cross references for codesearch.
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#13> It's almost like capitalism isn't actually good and you shouldn't want to live in the US
Strong words from a FAANG employee. Does he think there's another economic system which would give him the same extraordinary compensation package?
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#14Outside of the ML groups, Google really doesn't like Python and there's very little of it in the codebase. This move isn't surprising in that light. Also, Google is IBM at this point, so I would expect a lot of IBM-like moves.
Very little at the scale of this codebase is still a lot.
From where I sit (SRE), I see a lot of Python which is very much mission critical.
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#15Outside of the ML groups, Google really doesn't like Python and there's very little of it in the codebase. This move isn't surprising in that light. Also, Google is IBM at this point, so I would expect a lot of IBM-like moves.
There’s a ton of python all over the place. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
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#16The post suggests their jobs were offshored. Is this a common practice versus just closing the roles? I feel like US legislators should do more to protect domestic jobs from domestic companies, or else they’ll face the same eventual collapse as in manufacturing.
How do you "protect" a job?
Tax breaks for hiring citizens.
Tariffs for hiring non citizens.
Force companies to follow all the same employment laws for employees and contractors in other countries.
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#17> It's almost like capitalism isn't actually good and you shouldn't want to live in the US Strong words from a FAANG employee. Does he think there's another economic system which would give him the same extraordinary compensation package?
The poster lives in NL so not sure what to make of these statements.
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#18The post suggests their jobs were offshored. Is this a common practice versus just closing the roles? I feel like US legislators should do more to protect domestic jobs from domestic companies, or else they’ll face the same eventual collapse as in manufacturing.
This isn't the greatest submission and lacks any semblance of context. The poster is in Netherlands apparently and the new team in Germany? I have no idea what to make of this.
My read of it is that a US team was laid off. The poster is in NL and has to train he Munich team. The poster was not laid off.
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#19I believe this is just a product of US corporate tax laws and high interest rate but I would like to hear other takes on it. Corporations don't want to bring overseas profit home and be double taxed, so they borrow domestically using oversea cash as collateral. High interest rate and strong USD make it less attractive to hire in US.
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#20> It's almost like capitalism isn't actually good and you shouldn't want to live in the US Strong words from a FAANG employee. Does he think there's another economic system which would give him the same extraordinary compensation package?
The context is sparse, but it looks like Google laid off the Python team based in the US. The poster was not in US, so maybe that's why they're not laid off.
The quote you mentioned was a sarcastic comment on the US-specific layoffs, presumably.