Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countries

Covid charity hiring and Diversity hiring ate google from inside just in 3 years. 🥲

Ruth porat is the worst thing to have happened at Google. Many people rightly criticize Sundar Pichai for mismanagement, for messing up the culture, making Google play catchup in AI, but Ruth almost always avoids criticism despite being equally responsible. She has turned what was once highly innovative company to the shell of the former shelf by gutting the funding for key projects, poor acquisitions, etc. Mismanagement and competency (lack thereof) in executive positions inside Google is so bad that it's unbelievable. I am part of a smallish org where employees can easily observe the leadership up close. In our team, we have some talented superstars researchers from academia, and greatly educated engineers (it's ML related), but our "leadership" has no idea about the field she's in and is considered as a joke. There was an acquisition by this "leadership" that turned out to be a complete fraud (that product was seriously fake) and the whole investment got written off, not to mention they keep changing the product line going from a potentially "disruptive" product to a "half baked" system integrator work that doesn't work and we keep acquiring random companies that just doesn't bring much to the table. Now our employees in thie org are thinking that whole org wouldn't exist this time next year as it's getting so bad.

Quality over quantity. Diversity will kill your org. People who built top products would never have been able to build these stuffs if they cared they/them he/she and blaah blaah. It should not matter who you are if you are capable enough you will perform. Not this diversity woke nonsense.

Come India, we welcome you 🙏🏻

"Several teams across Google's finance and real estate units have been affected, according to two current employees, who said staff had been informed of the cuts this week. One said that the affected teams in finance include Google's Treasury, Business Services, and Revenue Cash Operations teams. It's unclear if other parts of the company are affected or how many roles have been cut. One current employee said the changes were "pretty large-scale" and that some roles are being moved abroad. According to a person who saw the email, Google's finance chief Ruth Porat sent an email to staff announcing that Google would build out its "growth hubs" in locations such as Bangalore, Mexico City, and Dublin as part of the restructuring. A Google spokesperson confirmed the cuts but declined to elaborate on the number of affected staff. They said that a small percentage of the roles will move to other offices in the US and abroad where Google is putting more investment, including India, Dublin, and Atlanta."

People thinking this is a good news but think from a perspective that India won’t be a cost effective option in future, then options like Thailand, Vietnam, Poland & Romania will rise & same will happen with us.

There has been a decline in the quality of google products and one of the major reasons is their broken hiring and promotion process. It is so weird to conduct interviews without having a role and team in mind. I interviewed there multiple times and was always shocked at the interviewers. They usually ask questions which they don’t know the answers to. They don’t even have clarity to the question they are asking (they pass this off as checking the candidates reaction to ambiguity). They also try to nitpick and write a very long paragraph about minor mistakes if you have solved the problem. I can only imagine that the people would do the same or worse politics in performance reviews and promotions.

Indians meanwhile mugging up more DSA and leetcode. The perfect recipe for even more lackluster performance of Google

I knew it, Woke people and people who got hired via DEI will be fired

We are 6 Months away from full blown recession. Something is about to break.

Diversity hiring killed this company! Im not against this , but you have to make sure to take quality employees rather than gender based! Atleast they should understand now and hire accordingly

It’s a shit show They also had protests in the US yesterday. And then fired everyone from the protests who was involved

Definitely i have my linkedin timeline with hirings from google india in google cloud team

Sundar mama bringing it home 😁 Seriously though, I feel sorry for the ones laid off. Can't be easy feeling that Google is gonna take care of you and then just throw you away because you're a toy that doesn't show well on a balance with more than enough cash to keep you and figure out a place and plan for you.

Good news for India. Bad for the US folks affected

Will see more openings now

AI disrupted Google in a bad way

Good for us

See this happening across many of the tech companies. Moving roles to cheaper countries