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Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#2That's just how it is for a lay off, in megacorp and elsewhere.
Not sure how this is HN-worthy.
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#3That's just how it is for a lay off, in megacorp and elsewhere. Not sure how this is HN-worthy.
Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things.
It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#4Does Google (or whoever is making these decisions) think that layoffs are in the long-term best interest of the company? If so, are they correct?
Or is it related to the possibility that Google may have to divest itself of Chrome due to anti-trust enforcement?
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#5It can be shock to discover how little the company as an entity, and its upper management in particular, actually values you (or any other employee.) Employees are indeed cogs in a megacorp, and the relationship is transactional. The company demands loyalty because it can and because it is profitable, not because it will be reciprocated.
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#6It sucks and especially the abruptness, but I find it hard to muster sympathy. Google employees receive some of the highest renumeration in the industry. Combined with the prestige of Google on his resume he'll land back on his feet in no time.
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#7That's just how it is for a lay off, in megacorp and elsewhere. Not sure how this is HN-worthy.
Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things. It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.
What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#8It sucks and especially the abruptness, but I find it hard to muster sympathy. Google employees receive some of the highest renumeration in the industry. Combined with the prestige of Google on his resume he'll land back on his feet in no time.
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Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#9The reality of one's lack of value to one's own employer is often baffling. It makes you wonder how anyone manages to stay employed at all, since apparently everyone is replicable and unimportant. I have been through layoffs where other people on my team, doing the same job I did approximately as well, got laid off. No explanation given for why them and not me. And it could happen to me at any time.
It doesn't matter how good my evals are or how big my contributions. It doesn't matter that there are multiple multi-million-dollar revenue streams which exist in large part due to my contributions. It doesn't matter that I have been told I am good enough that I should be promoted to the next level. Raises barely exist, let alone promotions. Because theoretically some other engineer could have done the same work I actually did, the fact that I'm the one who did it doesn't matter and I deserve no reward for doing it beyond the minimum money necessary to secure my labor.
Under those conditions, why should I - or anyone - do any more than the minimum necessary to not get fired for cause? If the company doesn't see me as more than X dollars for X revenue, why should I?
Re: Googler... ex-Googler
#10These megacorps will have so much fun in the upcoming recession. They turned public opinion against them through sociopathic profiteering and then mass layoffs. When the cows come home it won't be fun and games like before.