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It seems Google cut several hundred roles…out of how many? Don’t they employ more than 25k engineers?

I don’t want to make light of anyone losing their job, but this just doesn’t seem meaningful at this scale

It's news because it's been repeated ad nauseam only recruitment, HR, sales and other non tech roles will be affected by layoffs in big tech companies. The numbers aren't important just that there are numbers because it relates to engineering and it's something the tech community didn't expect.

Hasn't it been a foregone conclusion for over a year now that engineering is definitely part of the layoffs and hiring freezes?

Where are people still saying it's only non-technical roles?

The meaning is found in the combination of the name and verb in the title, afaik the first occurrence.

No, there were layoffs at this time last year.

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