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Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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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.

What market?

Google stock is up 56% YoY. Fifty six percent.

What do you think it should be? 2000%?

It's a huge mature company. 56% in a year is unheard of.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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post #21
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.

What market? Google stock is up 56% YoY. Fifty six percent. What do you think it should be? 2000%? It's a huge mature company. 56% in a year is unheard of.

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Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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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.

In the last quarter Alphabet reported "total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY)."

Google Cloud alone grew 22%.

https://erp.today/storm-clouds-for-google-as-q3-misses-analy...

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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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.

The Alphabet stock went up ~50% over the last year.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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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.

The Alphabet stock went up ~50% over the last year.

Bubble.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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post #24
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.

In the last quarter Alphabet reported "total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY)." Google Cloud alone grew 22%. https://erp.today/storm-clouds-for-google-as-q3-misses-analy...

> In the last quarter Alphabet reported "total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY)."

You’ve got to (a) zoom out and look at trend, (b) focus on profit, not revenue, and (c) look at forecast (future, not past).

Alphabet net income for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $66.732B, a 0.39% decline year-over-year. Their annual net income for 2022 was $59.972B, a 21.12% decline from 2021. And their annual net income for 2021 was $76.033B, a 88.81% increase from 2020.

If you believe that companies should grow, then a trend of rapidly decreasing profits is very worrisome and that you need to turn around.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-...

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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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.

Microsoft was once on the decline and it's now bouncing back. Having billions and captive markets (by network effect) seems to help.

Re: Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

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Their revenue growth is still good. Stock price increased. We are in a bad economy for one or two more years, but it already started a year ago. So what could the the reason for this time mass layoff? Section 174?
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