Program Manager

General business slowdown layoffs are always random. Each product line is given a reduction target. Each line head then splits this target amount among various functional teams. Each project head then decides to fire the least important person in the team whose severance will not majorly impact the working of the project. The past performance is meaningless here  
 At the higher levels, sometimes people who decide to scrap the entire project, will fire off the whole team and show their targets to the sr. Management. 
 This is what I have seen in three companies.

Consultant

Google has been terminating the employment of many people, adding fuel to the growing discontent among employees.  A software engineer, who is seeing many people leaving, has vented out her frustration on LinkedIn, saying Google is randomly firing people.

Google layoffs: Software engineer says company is randomly firing people

Google is randomly firing people?

Analyst

Google is randomly firing people?- Grapevine

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, plans to fire 10,000 "poor performing" workers, or 6% of its workforce

Google is planning to fire 10,000 employees

People who were affected just got emails. Orgs include Search, Cloud, Ads , Assistant,  Pixel, etc. Engg is affected

Big layoffs at Google!

Last I saw someone post that his Google Interview has started.  
  
 Guess, FAANG are showing their fangs.  
  
 Apple laid off subcontractors and not employees from what I read.

Software Engineer

Research Engineer

Googlers,

You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices.

Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.

Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to — including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.

We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.

You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace.

Chris

Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against Project Nimbus.

Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests: Read the full memo

Internal Email: Google Employees arrested and fired for protests

Friend shared the email with me 
I'm glad Google is finally beginning to crack down seriously on all the woke shit that some employees do

Corporate Strategist

Growth Manager

Google is sick 🤢 !! 700 million to fire people.

Product Designer

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Insider first hand perspective from recently laid off “original” googler of 18 years.

https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/

Google turning into WITCH over years

HR from Google reached out to me with the senior position and as per the mail share by her i prepared case studies and after 1 Month when I was trying mailing her so email bounced

Seems laid off by Google, What to do now?

Google Googly

UX/UI Designer

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https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/being-treated-like-school-children-google-employees-on-stricter-work-from-home-policy/amp-11686719779521.html

Is this true? googler’s here?

Product Manager

I am not sure if the ads team is impacted? Can anyone confirm that?

Amid Google layoffs…they are hiring too

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. 🥲

Apparently Google is still laying people off after their big layoff

There is something wrong with Google india software engineer recruitments . Heard some of the recruitments are done under table dealings by recruiters

Something sketchy - Google india

3 people in my network had their phone screen scheduled around the same time.

Is Google India hiring too much lately?

Google's hiring process is so shitty , I have already been through 8 interview rounds and spent a whole year in the process but still yet to get a confirmed outcome result. What is wrong with these people, half of the interview rounds didn't seem justified for the role also. Almost every time the recruiter says this is the last interview then the hiring committee recommends another one supposedly "to fill the gaps ". Seems like an elitist process being followed to sastify their egos.

Why is Google hiring process so shitty?

Business Analyst

A concrete test is if you can access Memegen, you haven't been impacted at the moment. I'll make sure to keep this post up to date with any findings we may have.

Google Layoffs

Engineering Manager

Google parent Alphabet on January 20 announced that plans to cut about 12,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce, Bloomberg reported.

Google parent Alphabet to lay off 12,000 employees, 6% of total workforce

Google to lay off 12,000 employees worldwide

Founder

Declared for the states: We’ll pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days).
We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting.

We’ll pay 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time. 
We’ll be offering 6 months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected. 

Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices.

Google layoff details

Can anybody working at Google India, throw some light on what’s happening with Hiring. Seeing some posts related to layoff, people interviewing, people getting ghosted by recruiters after interviews. I’ve seen few people waiting for their interview feedback for few weeks after completing their all interview rounds. Is google going to stop hiring or there are too many candidates applying? Any insights would be helpful. Thanks

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