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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

“a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

That sounds like they're eliminating some profile globally. I wonder which particular role they don't need anymore, that required a profile so specific that they couldn't reassign those people to some other role.

How ironic would it be, to learn that they finally managed to fully replace some profile with an AI, so they no longer need humans for that role?

[–] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

It's mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.