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Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email

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Post by smsm42 »

Google is a megacorp. Of course it behaves as a megacorp. And tbh what would you expect - if they fire thousands, there is no way they'd do it with individual attention to every person.

That said, I don't think Google has been "beloved" for years now. It has been just another megacorp that pays reasonably well.

Re: Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email

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Post by tdeck »

aix1 wrote: post #128
tdeck wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you hear about "megablocks"? They ran the shuttles and cafes on the weekends and "encouraged" engineers to work through the weekend until that project was done. I wasn't in that org and joined Google a bit after the project concluded, but it had an infamous reputation that stuck around.

No, never heard of "megablocks".

It might actually have been spelled "megablox"; it's been too long.
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