Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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...on the otherside of the pond
At another employer, I survived two private equity acquisitions. I didn't survive the third.You can only dodge so many layoffs until they call your name
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Been reaching out to contacts and making sure my resume is updated. Prayers to everyone going through it right now.
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...on the otherside of the pond
Im toughing it out overseas.
Anyone ever use a Resume Writer? Yeah I know everyone using Chat Gpt now.
Gotta know when to GTFO!
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My wife cussed me out because she saw that third one coming and I was being "meh" about it.
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For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report
Previously, there were similar cuts in labour made, in the finance department.www.freepressjournal.in
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report
Previously, there were similar cuts made in labour made, in the finance department.
G R MukeshUpdated: Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:27 AM IST
Image: Wikipedia (Representative)
In a major development, according to reports emerging online, Google has allegedly fired its entire to Python team. Python is a highly sophisticated, general-purpose programming language.
According to reports from sources that produce news on such matters, this is critical, as the California-based company is an AI driven company, especially in the current AI boom. This as the complicated system of Artificial Intelligence is written in the sophisticated Python language.
A chain of information on the matter is currently available on platform like Redditand Hacker News.
Screengrab of the chain from Hacker News | Hacker News
On X, a user shared a post of screengrab of the revelation by the fired employees on a platform.
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In the post, the now former Google employees said, "in addition to contributing to upstream python, we maintained a stable version of python within google, and made sure that everything in the monorepo worked with it.
Many are speculating and thereby attributing this decision to the company's search for 'cheaper' option elsewhere, outside the United States, where the company would not have to pay as much.
The screengrab of the conversation | X
They further go on to say, "In my time on the team we moved from 2.7 to 3.6, then incrementally to 3.11, each update taking months to over a year because the rule at google is if you check any code in, you are responsible for every single breakage it causes".
The despondent former employee apart from enumerating their work, also expressed the constrained nature of the task, that was limited under two dozen employees who were working in the department.
They said, "we did all this for years with fewer than 10 people, most of whom loved the work and the team so much that we just stayed on it for years. also, despite the understaffing, we had managers who were extremely good about maintaining work/life balance and the "marathon, not sprint" approach to work. as i said in another comment, it's the best job i've ever had, and i'll miss it deeply."
Previously, there were similar cuts made in labour made, in the finance department, indicating the company's reorientation of policies and cost cutting, by employing labour from labour markets cheaper than the US.
In addition, these developments come barely days after the company fired dozens of its workers in New York and California for protesting inside the company campus, against its support to Israel in Gaza.
It's absolutely crazy they accomplished all that with less than 10 people to be honest. That said, we don't really know the details of what they're doing.
Not really a lot of lay-offs there, but still very shytty for a company to do.
it sounds like they were internal tooling teams rather than teams working on products. Basically the ones who make the codebases and tech easier for people to use at the company. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out and how many people start complaining about wacker tooling and less efficient workflows. That's honestly my favorite kind of work, so that's lame.
Tooling and quality teams get shytted on the most, even before A.I.
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I work with a lot of people in the EU and deal with people in India as well. These companies in the US only care about shareholders and bottom line. There is 0 "patriotism" in the tech sector. I'm still here because I made myself the go to for a few departments. Only real reason I have survived as long as I have. I have updated resume and contacts though. Also taking another course to upskill. The game now is just about staying ready and as prepared as you can be. Eyeryone should be on that and staying sharp. Feels like we definitely had it cushy for a few years.
They always know.
Google CEO was an ex engineer. He' gonna cut the hell out of that headcount.
You can only dodge so many layoffs until they call your name
It’s like a game of Frogger so you have to be clever — or connected — to know when it’s time to go to a new spot.
And that’s not as simple as it sounds.
