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If you hire 30k people that you shouldn't have hired, when you let 30k people go it will probably not be the exact group of 30k that you hired, some will be folks that have been there for a while.

And to anyone complaining I just say: "welcome to the tech industry?". Layoffs are a very normal part of our industry and it happens all the time. And as former Google engineers, I'm sure none of those laid off will have trouble finding work again.

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it doesn't happen all the time. for Google, this is the first time they've ever done a large set of layoffs in their 25 year history.

Ehh... Kinda. They used to focus more on cutting orgs/teams. Google was pretty notorious for doing the whole "your teams has been shut down, you have X days to find a new role or you can take this package and leave now."

Sounds like a regression.

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