https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/google-bye-bye-bidets-employees-not-so-fast/ Your guide to a better future Update Consent Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and... — read more
Sundar caught destroying evidence by DOJ!!!
He will panick soon! https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/feds_google_antitrust_communication/
Food?
Is it true that they are taking away some of the food options at google? a friend told me that the sushi bar was going to go away?
googlers must work in office hybrid with reduced perks and share desks
They cut cafeteria costs, massages. Japanese toilets, snacks, and now share desks in hybrid mode. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/google-desk-sharing-layoffs/ Google said it is implementing the change based on feedback from employees. "Since... — read more
Google Subcontractors Face Low Pay, Inadequate Benefits, Union Survey Finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/google-subcontractors-face-low-pay-few-benefits-awu-survey-finds?sref=i8nBPoz1
Google could cut 240 jobs in Ireland as part of global layoffs
More than 200 Google Ireland staff were informed by email today (22 February) that their jobs were at risk of being cut as part of widespread layoffs first announced by the tech giant last... — read more
Alphabet Workers Union
https://twitter.com/AlphabetWorkers https://linktr.ee/awu_cwa
Historical Context (Malcolm Harris' Palo Alto)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-california-took-over-the-world-180981660/
More layoffs?
The word on the street is that there will be more layoffs, and some even say about 20k jobs to be cut by the end of this year. Lets hope this is a pure speculation and not something to worry about. The previous round was pretty big.
Cannot believe this
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-google-spies-on-its-employees How Google Spies on Its Employees At Google, a seemingly innocuous action can earn an employee the attention of the company’s corporate security department. For example... — read more
Praveen could not take it anymore...
And he quit! Sundar's leadership is in question! https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/app-founder-quits-google-says-company-doesnt-serve-users-anymore/
Why Google is not rehiring laid off engineers?
Why google is not showing any intention to help laid off engineers to hire back for the jobs they have posted online. They are treating all the laid-off candidates on par with external candidates. I wish they had given access to go/grow so people... — read more
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s Longtime C.E.O., Says She Will Step Down
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s chief executive and one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, said on Thursday that she was stepping down from her longtime role leading the internet’s most popular video... — read more
Layoffs in India today
Does that mean we're next? I doubt it'll happen tomorrow since it's Friday, but maybe next week? I know more layoffs are going to happen so the sooner they do it, I think it will be better for all of us. Anything is better than having to go through... — read more
Raters are dispoable!
See here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-minimum-wage-ghosts-keep-133047606.html
LMAO!
Time to make Google bankrupt! https://www.engadget.com/google-human-employees-bard-chatbot-testing-055243004.html
Exceptionalism
Within Google, there is a collective delusion that the company is exceptional. And as is the case in all such delusions, the deluded ones are just mortals standing on the shoulders of the truly exceptional people who went before them and created an... — read more
High flyers with no real products
I would rather be an Apple, Microsoft or a Cisco than a Google right now. real products and steady growth over hype
I am surprised there is not yet a lawsuit against Sundar...
Google are a bunch of Woke people! You guys should have launched as Class Action Suit, since there is no consistency in layoffs, and file for Discrimination. I am really very surprised!
only good thing out of this
Is that since the pandemic google buses across the bay area had stopped and post pandemic employees are laid off and by allowing them to work remote it lowers transportation and food bills for google.
Google begins Israel layoffs
After announcing last month that it was laying off 6% of its worldwide workforce of 12,000 employees, Google has begun its layoffs in Israel, sources familiar with the matter have told "Globes." Google Israel has begun summoning employees who will be... — read more
Big Tech Stagnation
The next phase of Big Tech... https://novum.substack.com/i/101103540/big-tech-stagnation
How many people will be fired over this?
Remember when Microsoft 98 crashed during a major presentation with Bill Gates there? It took a long while for the company to recover from the embarrassment. You'd think tech companies would have learned from that example and made sure they were... — read more
Well looks like layoff is good for you guys since you have no problem of finding work!
Details here: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Mass-layoffs-at-U.S.-tech-giants-help-startups-secure-IT-talent
You could be Yahoo
look on the bright side Google could be Yahoo (20% layoff). On the flip side, Google will eventually be Yahoo !
Google is in turmoil, cannot answer simple questions!
Share is down! Sundar's leadership is being questioned! https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/
Survived layoffs, but received a "not enough impact" rating. Should I start looking for a new job?
If there's a second round of layoffs I'm definitely getting chopped.
Plenty more to come
oh, be patient ...... those additional rounds are coming soon. You see, oh naive one .... even in 2001 and 2002, when 2M+ employees worldwide were laid off, most companies did not have more than 60k employees ..... Google has 180k+ .... I'll let... — read more
DoubleClick question
Is DoubleClick web only or does it serve mobile ads as well ? Thanks.
MSFT delivers a stinging blow to Google
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/c6f46427-8843-345c-a94b-bf8c87161af3/-i-never-ever-felt-this.html 'I Never Ever Felt This Liberated': Says Microsoft CEO About As----t on Google
Where is Bard?
I can't even find its link! Google is going downhill fast!
Layoffs started in Canada
No word on how many exactly.
Should leadership be held accountable for the company direction (trending down) and the impact to livelyhood?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/laid-off-silicon-valley-workers-are-panic-selling-their-start-up-shares-as-valuations-plunge-here-are-3-top-tech-stocks-for-2023-that-actually-make-money/ar-AA16CzwY?cvid=ec4a76f7fef248e2a83a3071a44ab791
Huge shock coming to SWEs
The bull market of 2012-2020 is likely not going to be repeated again, I think a LOT of people are out of touch and many spent their entire careers in this conditions. Being able to up your salary every 1/2 years due to skills demand whilst stocks... — read more
Did we lost our ways with innovations and being a leader?
MS is at our doorstep with AI. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-new-chatgpt-version-of-microsoft-bing-may-have-just-leaked/ar-AA1752uU We so... — read more
"Google workers protesting in California and New York"
In a tweet about the company’s financial results, the Alphabet Workers Union said it was "clear that Google has debunked its own rationale for laying off 12,000 of our... — read more
Protest Video
Here is the Google Laid-Off people protest video: https://twitter.com/I_am_the_Story/status/1621584833557438464
MY Prediction of 22k layoffs AND Google's Layoff roadmap
On Dec 9, I gave you all a prediction of 22,000 cuts ... some of you laughed .... 12 days ago, I gave you the Google layoff Roadmap. and now, get ready for round 2.0 in 2023. You see, some of you Google newbies have yet to understand that... — read more
Porat Says More Layoffs
Here it goes: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/google-is-on-the-tech-cost-cutting-bandwagon-its-cfo-just-flagged-more-cuts-could-come/ar-AA172XQ5
Full layoff list
https://airtable.cool/shrF23JdDHMQ3QDyw