Many Google layoffs were just teams shutting down and employees had 2-3 months to team match.
Google hired way too much during pandemic. From what I hear from G friends, this is likely a low performer prune.
Google hired way too much during pandemic. From what I hear from G friends, this is likely a low performer prune.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...
They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros. The talent and the institutional knowledge of some of those people makes the decision flabbergasting.
If you click over to the Python thread, you'll see that the victims include a member of the Python Steering Council and the maintainers of PyType. These aren't low-performers; they're people who are an integral part of the Python community.
From the pytype homepage:
> Thousands of projects at Google rely on pytype to keep their Python code well-typed and error-free.
How do you know those people still weren't low performers?