Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant::Up to 20 employees working on Google’s Assistant team have been cut.
Seems like all Fortune 500 companies are laying off 5-10% of their staff every year to pump end of year report.
Have seen cuts across multiple industries. Not just tech.
Have seen that too. The canned press release from all of them is something like “as part of our continued effort to make the org more efficient we have aggregated tram X with team Y and as a result a handful of roles were no longer needed. Our company remains focused and confident in our growth”. Has AI taken over the PR department too?
From what I can see, this is not even about individual performance. It looks like a continuous game of musical chair where an entire team here and there is suddenly decimated or completely removed with non-existent internal communication.
The bigger the company, the more they see people as just a headcount. Your performance doesn’t matter, your name is unknown, you’re not even a number, you are 1 of x number of y’s.
Most of f500 is overrated. At a certain point, only driving the stonk is the main motivator to do anything.
Gotta love the stock market. It incentivizes gaming the numbers like this
Pump the stonk 📈🚀🌕
So according to a quick search, Google employs ~ 178k people, making this far less than 5-10%.
But yeah, cuts keep happening until interest rates start trending downwards again, basically.
G fired like 12K people at the beginning of the year.
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1150234270/google-layoffs-12000-jobs
Then smaller groups of layoffs throughout the year and usual churn. Adds up to ~5-6% for the year
This is true, however it’s also the first time Google has done a mass layoff, so I wouldn’t say it’s pointing to a yearly trend.
My company hasn’t! Fingers crossed!🤞
Good luck
Even worse, they laid them off by having the voice assistant call to inform them.
“Would you like to reply?”
“… I don’t know, but here’s what I found on the web.”
This is getting wayy 2 real for me
Just got this blog article in my email from Google, might shed some more light as to why this layoffs happened.
https://blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-bard-generative-ai/
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Google replaced them with Google Assistant. It can now take care of its own development.
