Just got an interview with Google 7 days after my layoff. There is hope for those laid off, you all got this too.
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Goog up 65% this year. But knock yourself out putting them down.
@hb - @"Forbes" - Is that even relevant anymore?
Original publisher, Malcolm Forbes, was a bit qu**r shall we say. Fiscally conservative, but socially liberal.
@h4 Forbes list of 1000 top employers, Google is number 3. Verizon not on list.
Clearly misplaced goodwill as Google is evil and he's only working with the faint hope of getting hired.
Note, typical Google interviewing process is six (6) rounds of interviews, then they might make you an offer if you get thru every one!
@bp I see this as an ENCOURAGING post. The poster wishes GOOD will!
Go for it!
@cd -@" big first start at a great company."
Hardly a great company. Their motto published in their Employees HR handbook was "Don't Be Evil."
Do you know what? They ignored that many times over practicing anti-Conservaitive behaviors, stomping out the competition, firing legitimate Whistleblowers, selling your personal data without consent, providing Hillary Clinton with her 2016 Presidential Campaign strategy (Eric Schmidt)...the list goes on & on!
In summary, Google is an evil & wicked corporate cesspool that I would never consider working at under any conditions.
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-support-hillary-clinton
An interview at Google means nothing? Do you think they're wasting their time interviewing unqualified candidates? No. It's not an offer but it's a big first start at a great company - practice of those interviewing skills and a bit of confidence and hope during difficult times. Good luck.
What's Google 7 ?
@OP - Check back with us in 6 months for another update!
@bp OP isn’t bragging. They are sharing encouragement that there is hope for other jobs outside of VZ
@OP You might be going from bad to worse…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-quietly-restricts-generous-workplace-173300623.html
Glad for you but I wouldn’t ASSume anything at this point.
Bragging about your good fortune while bashing others? Hopefully you won’t get the job.
@ab I'd take "shaky Google" over VZ any day. Shaky GOOG is up 68% ytd.
Jobs are certainly out there if you are well qualified, and if your resume fits the bill!
Good luck with your interview I hope you read up on Google as it sounds kind of shaky right now. If not, I'd recommend Googling it.
Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval and antitrust uncertainty
October 2, 2025
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire. The Mountain View, California, company confirmed the streamlining that was reported by several news outlets.
It’s not clear how many employees are affected, but the offers were made to staff in Google’s search, advertising, research and engineering units, according to The Wall Street Journal. Google employs most of the nearly 186,000 workers on the worldwide payroll of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
“Earlier this year, some of our teams introduced a voluntary exit program with severance for U.S.-based Googlers, and several more are now offering the program to support our important work ahead,” a Google spokesperson, Courtenay Mencini, said in a statement.
“A number of teams are also asking remote employees who live near an office to return to a hybrid work schedule in order to bring folks more together in-person,” Mencini said.
Google is offering the buyouts while awaiting for a federal judge to determine its fate after its ubiquitous search engine was declared an illegal monopoly as part of nearly 5-year-old case by the U.S. Justice Department. The company is also awaiting remedy action in another antitrust case involving its digital ad network.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta is weighing a government proposal seeking to ban Google paying more than $26 billon annually to Apple and other technology companies to lock in its search engine as the go-to place for online information, require it to share data with rivals and force a sale of its popular Chrome browser. The judge is expected to rule before Labor Day, clearing the way for Google to pursue its plan to appeal last year’s decision that labeled its search engine as a monopoly.
The proposed dismantling coincides with ongoing efforts by the Justice Department to force Google to part with some of the technology powering the company’s digital ad network after a federal judge ruled that its digital ad network has been improperly abusing its market power to stifle competition to the detriment of online publishers.
Like several of its peers in Big Tech, Google has been periodically reducing its headcount since 2023 as the industry began to backtrack from the hiring spree that was triggered during pandemic lockdowns that spurred feverish demand for digital services.
Google began its post-pandemic retrenchment by laying off 12,000 workers in early 2023 and since then as been trimming some divisions to help bolster its profits while ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence — a technology driving an upheaval that is starting to transform its search engine into a more conversational answer engine.
OP, did you take your puppa’s permission? Try not to make an employer your identity. Otherwise Google or whoever, you will still be a peasant.
Interview doesn't mean much. It's just an interview.
Congrats, what role?