...what are you doing to avoid from being laid off in the future?

Please state your experience.

As expected, this division is being dismantled, and soon it will be gone. Everything that Google acquires, it destroys, and Fitbit is not going to be different. People working with Fitbit are desperate to find a new opportunity, but internal hiring... — read more 

Why would you want to work for Google if there is CONSTANT layoff's? Someone is at google for a year or 2 then is let go, why would someone go through that stress?

Imagine sinking trillions in datacenters... Lots of ingoing energy and maintenance costs. And, turns out, theres no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, no way to monetize AI effectively. Then, bam, the DOJ starts breaking the company up. — read more 

I was about to interview for an internal position. Ironically I have been waiting for a headcount for 18 months. The recruiter tells me most likely such position will be cancelled. All positions under that manager will be offshored. That tells me... — read more 

Following voluntary exit offers extended back in January, reports from The Information (via 9to5 Google) surfaced Thursday evening (confirmed by Google) indicating that hundreds of employees within the company’s Platforms & Devices division have been... — read more 

April, August, Thanksgiving and January 2026.

You will sink

Does anyone have insight on manufacturing in Data center for Bay Area? Got an interview coming up and wanted to know more about stability and WLB.

Tech company Google is cutting about 21% of its workforce in Irvine after renewing its lease here last year. Parent company Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) said a total of 52 employees will lose their jobs as of next month at the gleaming local base... — read more 

Which group will be the next to fall?

Possibility of breakup triggering reorganizations and layoffs. It will have to sell Chrome https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-will-still-have-to-break-up-its-business-the-justice-department-said-150000739.html Probably, a couple million... — read more 

Who is taking the chance?

Any one heard more about this? Is it going to affect the sales roles?

It has been 12 hours since news broke about buyouts in devices, and not one peep from him. Is he okay?

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/30/pixel-android-voluntary-exit-employees/

The Information reported news on Jan. 13 of a fresh 60-worker job cut at Google Cloud.

As the drumbeat of layoffs at major tech companies slows but does not cease, a mass of Google workers has joined a new campaign pushing for job security at the Bay Area... — read more 

Here's newsletter i got: Welcome back! OpenAI’s development of an “agent” to automate the work of a senior software engineer—which my colleagues scooped yesterday—will raise the stakes in an already competitive market for AI coding tools. But... — read more 

How does Google rate performance when 25% of your code is AI-generated?

I am wondering if shitbit, the former fitbit before google destroyed it, will be impacted by the layoffs

tl,dr: Yes, a number of Verily employees are about to apparently leave. They are not being laid off. To avoid the problems of the non-insiders confusing the issue, I'm going to state what is happening in simple terms: Alphabet is a conglomerate... — read more 

ResumeBuilder.com's latest research showed that 30 percent of companies that had a recent round of layoffs replace U.S. workers with offshore ones while 24 percent of companies with recent layoffs "plan to terminate and replace U.S. employees with... — read more 

Need more than 30%

Are the layoffs in management roles finalized and comminicated? How many of them are laid off.

Sundar Pichai's REAL VALUE is DO EVIL. He plans consistently DO EVIL in 2025.

https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/google-managerial-layoffs-restructuring-2024-ai-competition-124122000769_1.html

My local team is getting slammed with interview requests. Mostly cloudy engineering roles. A variety of levels. Any thoughts from the layoff doomers?

what do you think ? layoffs or not ?

Low sales... Risk of layoff is high

In the past Google has filtered out citizens to hire candidates that need to be sponsored. Will we have to start hiring american candidates again?

I am hearing that Sales will be impacted in layoffs. Is it just GCP or in other areas of Sales?

In the event one does not achieve SI or higher, what is the typical action? Does it result in immediate layoff or one would be placed in improvement plan before a layoff?

https://www.techspot.com/news/105755-google-sues-former-engineer-leaking-pixel-chip-secrets.html I guess what he says is TRUTH?!

Start on the First Week January 2025

He's running Google into the ground.

Start from January.

I think the Top Execs now should be happy because there's more money for their executive bonuses! https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/ai-pioneer-francois-chollet-leaves-google/

Have you heard anything about potential Google layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?