Jan 20 (Reuters) - Google's parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) is eliminating about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, the company said Friday, in the latest cuts to shake the technology sector.
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO, said in a staff memo shared with Reuters that the company had rapidly expanded headcount in recent years "for a different economic reality than the one we face today."
"I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here," he said.
The cuts come days after rival Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it would lay off 10,000 workers.
Alphabet's job losses affect teams across the company including recruiting and some corporate functions, as well as some engineering and products teams.
The layoffs are global and impact U.S. staff immediately.
Alphabet has already emailed affected employees, the memo said, while the process will take longer in other countries due to local employment laws and practices.
The news comes during a period of economic uncertainty as well as technological promise, in which Google and Microsoft have been investing in a burgeoning area of software known as generative artificial intelligence.
"I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our early investments in AI," Pichai said in the note.
Reuters was first to report the news.
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I wonder if the Googler with the username KiwiFarms on Blind is getting axed
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If only Elon hadnt broken the wall of tech sector labor-management solidarity that precipitated these firings
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"TWITTER IS GOING TO DIE........ANY DAY NOW"
Other Companies: "you mean we can just....get rid of dead weight?"
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Learn to mine
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RIP India
Superpower status has been pushed back one more year because of this.
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??? We're doing fine, more outsourcing
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sirs...
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You guys are fricked. You let an Indian become CEO. I love my people but in my very limited experience they aren't ready for this. Good luck watching your trillion dollar company implode as decisions are made to maximize profits every few months with zero care for long term direction and problems only exist when they occur.
You should have made him owner if you wanted real success. Indian's never frick around with their own money. Problem is CEO is still a job working for somebody else.
Good luck with that.
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Why are you leaking our secret stratz to the burgers??
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oh shit sorry sorry. Everything in first post was /s. haha, hire more Indian CEO's guys, you will see the profits go up for the next ten years guys. So based on that data it's safe to assume you should hire even more Indian CEO's guys. Indians are the best CEO's in the world they get rid of only the useless workers.
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The burger cannot resist the Brahmin Scheming. Even if they know exactly what they planned, the BrahminChad will import his caste system, lie to your face about, become CEO of the entire fortune 50 and co-opt both major political parties.
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Imo this is why intel sucks at chip making now
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Intel is weird because despite being their chips being worse than AMD they have much better price/performance value. But then again I don't think intel's CEO a Pahjeet.
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This is pretty much what most boards of directors encourage though. It's completely r-slurred and fricks over the longevity of the company but the game of maximizing short-term profits for a very small amount of people is something Indians have basically perfected. The Chinese are fundamentally different, more of them are able to work together for longer to acquire bigger profits down the line.
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Is just code for "more sexy Indian dudes behind a magic button"
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That's what ever app is. Reading about how backend processes on all the food delivery apps work is absolutely hilarious
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35% of grads in India are unemployed. Most growth in India in recent years has been in agriculture and basic services like call centres.
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Is that why I'm getting so many of them calling me to try to get my 2fa code for my accounts? I like to get them up to the point of sending the code to my phone and then giving them the wrong number teeeheee
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White collar work by itself does little to bootstrap a country into a developed nation. You have to climb up the value added chain slowly like China did, and leverage the poorly educated part of the population into more productive jobs, like manufacturing.
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I'm fairly certain if you tested the average group of people from each country on how they did on a prisoner's dilemma game, you'd find that curry-adjacent countries would have the highest percentage of people choosing the immediate reward even before the prompt was finished.
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Compared to China? Naaaaahhhhhh, those people lived through the IRL prisoners dilemma on a national scale, it was called the Cultural Revolution. It's only now that the trauma is going and the Chinese are shedding their secretive, cynical attitude.
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Hard disagree, both are low trust societies but the Chinese fundamentally understand that working together leads to better outcomes for each individual. Even when they fight each other they do it in the form of giant hordes. South Asia is just too divided along the lines of religion, language, race, ethnicity, caste, tribe, and class to come together in the way China has. The avenues for cooperation are much smaller.
Important to note the Chinese cultural revolution was brutal but they got over it more than a decade before India did with their closed-market socialism experiment.
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No, thank god
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Just *ngloid.
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mfw I'm starting my new job in a week
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Not anymore
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USPS is notoriously slow sweaty.
Just wait a few more days!
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I'll earn more than your family tree lil man
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We net about 4mil so I doubt it.
"Trust in the Trust." is our motto.
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codebros... we got too cocky
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The Google people on blind were pooping on Capital One yesterday and Microsoft was telling them to not get cocky, and we got this today. This is hilarious to me.
The H1Bs are pooping their pants right now lol
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The smug Google posters are so annoying and prevalant. Enter every thread to brag about how G is different and reply to any critique with "try interviewing again next year" like a cult member, but now they got their dose of reality
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I know. Their smugposting just yesterday is what makes this so sweet. lol
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Is this what people do all day on Blind? Suck corporate peepee?
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Really? The sexy Indian CEO has been hinting at layoffs for months now.
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The Google people at Blind were defending him because at the last all-hands meeting he dodged the question like any corp speak but people are dumb and don't realize that he's not going to say yes or no so they took it as a "no" because he said they are trying to avoid it, which means "yes" to me but I've been around the block with corps so I know how these people speak.
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I'm guessing they somehow didn't see this talk about efficiency and laying people off.
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Something common with wagies is that they all hear wayyyy ahead of time rumors of layoffs. IME, you hear them for months prior to it happening. But most wagies try to fool themselves into thinking they are safe, or try to ignore them thinking they'll go away. When I got laid off from AT&T, I heard rumors a year ahead of time but I worked for a telecom that was bought out by AT&T, so I kinda knew it was going to happen but just rode it out until I could get that sweeeet severance. I somehow survived every layoff after that, but even so we heard rumors way in advance.
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Is it the coders that are being let go? Or more of the DIE and human resource types?
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Scrum masters and PMs
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And nothing of value was lost
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from what i got from the article it seems they're firing people from both
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SDEs have been affected at all the other layoffs in FAANG
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I won't be happy until they fire whoever makes those awful doodles
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Hey look another r-slurred looking fat slave looking at a moon
Detrans lives matter
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You can literally make that shit with stable diffusion now, no need to pay some r-slur 6 figures to do it
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Didn’t wake up to any layoff email
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I'm going to find your LDAP
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I'm curious about all these layoffs, are they actually firing coders or is it all like useless management people and women who drink lattes and go to yoga all day?
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Nobody's been safe from the big ones. The trend seems to be cut non-tech > people in underperforming/non-critical business areas > new hires > a smattering of unlucky randos + PIP out poor performers without counting them in the official layoff numbers
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Probably some of both. I was working for a company (non-tech) with about 1000 people during the 2008 recession, and our layoffs took out all the useless middle management in the whole company, but it wasn't enough, so a lot of good people got the axe too.
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Probably coders and useless ancillary functions (HR), but it's no big deal, they all just overhired last year. All these tech giants hired tens of thousands (no joke) of people each since 2020, it's just a return to normalcy.
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Those "useless management people" keep the companies pretty safe from discrimination law suits. None of those big tech companies can cut down on them relative to the actual productive part of the company, or they would.
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lol looks like Blind will be fun today. The Google people were being really smug to the Microsoft H1Bs yesterday. Now it's time for Microsoft to shit on Google people. I love that site so v v v vv much.
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Are you the one who asked Reddit about
the other day?
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Nope, I have one account that doesn't get the reddit "profile not available" so it's not technically shadowbanned but my posts don't show up so I'm not sure what's going on. I have another alt that I use for 1 sub and another for my trash TV posts but I don't want to get them banned so I keep them entirely separate from my drama fun.
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No I mean there was someone on Blind who asked a Reddit employee about BF
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oh shit lmao Now this is something I would do but no I have not even posted once on Blind. Off to go find it! It would be fun to post more truths on reddit on there because reddit will see it but can't do anything about it. :D
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Unfortunately the reddit employee didn't reply. I just lurk too but I've noticed some of our own failing to separate work drama from internet drama
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I doubt I would ever sign up with my work email. I work with a lot of Silicon Valley businesses and I swear they all talk to each other. There is one company that I won't troll because it could be my livelihood, but I do lurk hard on their threads.
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Record is 1 days 03 hours 34 minutes and 29 seconds by Shreddedmanlet
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was Russia which was 0 days 11 hours 57 minutes and 35 seconds
Best friend is aminobastard with 35 mentions
rdrama is currently running at 205.473 µBardyhertz with 2105 total mentions since 2022-09-24
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Did you make an actual account or can you browse threads anon?
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I used my personal domain. I can read all threads and post, but I just read and lurk. They say you get limited access with a free email account like gmail, so I used email on a domain that I own.
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Oh huh, I have some domains I could use that for. Maybe I'll sign up one of these days. I don't work at one of those giant companies but the drama just seems delicious.
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I think you show as "new" if you don't have an email address at one of these companies, but I think it's risky to use your real job id anyway. They say they delete the link between you and your email, but if they wanted to be douchebags they would still have their own email archives to prove that you signed up to the site. With my personal email, it doesn't matter if they are lying about deleting account email connections.
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It’s wild to see these companies lay off in one fell swoop more people than work in my entire company - which dominates its industry and affects the lives of most people in my country. Big tech is truly bloated beyond comprehension.
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big tech prints money, they are just not growing as fast as they were during pandemic
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How many dei officers does one company need?
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None. Let a hundred -isms bloom.
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Snapshots:
https://web.archive.org/https://www.reuters.com/business/google-parent-lay-off-12000-workers-memo-2023-01-20
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https://archive.ph/?url=https%3A//www.reuters.com/business/google-parent-lay-off-12000-workers-memo-2023-01-20&run=1 (click to archive)
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Man I feel really bad for the tech sector :(
Is there some way to donate???
Anyway sending good vibes and positive energy!!!
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Tell them to l2farm.
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I like the part where he fires everyone except himself that was a new hire.
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"we take full responsibility" but I'm still gonna fire you and stick around even though I am at fault with no consequences. lmao This and so much more is why I frickin jerk off to raping corporate wallets without an ounce of guilt.
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tbf "taking responsibility" (read: saying that and pretending to be humbled by it) is basically part of their job description
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Very true. It's like the "I'm sorry" template when the hivemind brainlet mobs are trying to ruin your life.
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the tech companies hire a bunch of people to prevent ocmpetiton from gettting them now they realize that is fricking r-slurred and so they have all just fired them, enjoy getting your job taken. oh and to be clear, the people at these companies are 10000x the programmer you are they are the best in the world, besides the other people who work at those companies, your manager would lay you off in an instance to scratch the bum of one of these "chads", to be clear they are losers, but are just more successful loerss than you. enjoy that take it.
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bruh idk
knew a guy in undergrad that got hired at google when he graduated
sure he got A's in hard classes but the top 10% of us did, me included because I studymaxxed
He liked to do really basic tutorials and brag that he did it in Rust, thereby advancing the field of computer science. CS1 teir projects but "I did it in rust tho
you're welcome, world"
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Im gonna hire you if you keep talking to me with that punk ass attitude
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NOOOOO DONT MAKE ME GO TO FAANG
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All these people are r-slurs 100%
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I have a friend who 'works' at Amazon (brags about doing nothing all day) and has somehow avoided all of these big tech layoffs, how much bloat do they have?
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Who knew it took 200'000 employees to change the CSS of the Google search bar once every 3 months
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We need a ceo layoff bingo. Put “I take full responsibility” as the free space
Trans lives matter
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Oh no... anyways
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Normal people already go outside an socialize, todays terminally online neets stayed inside in the pre social media days anyway.
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no more ads added to every fricking this imaginable
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on one hand, codercels put ads on everything
on the other hand, codercels created adblockers which stripped ads from everything
the world is so confusing!!
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app gets updated faster
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Inshallah tech has finally stopped being the Hot New Thing™ and is just another mature business.
No more stratospheric growth = no more money pouring in =
lose their stranglehold on society = 
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God I wish. Hopefully that Supreme Court ruling kicks in or something like it does as well.
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Key difference here is that there aren't twice as many electricians/plumbers/doctors as we need.
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I'm so glad I stayed away from big tech. I could have got in, not based on my merit, but probably because of my diversity points, which would have made me feel like shit.
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happiness isn't about big money and stepping over poo poo on your way to work :(
happiness isn't about making another google vaporware and getting axed
I have job satisfaction because I know the stuff I make for local boomers is going to be used in 10 years and needs to be designed to be future proofed
the feeling of placing an order from a mom and pop restaurant with a custom website and thinking "this website is still as nice af like the day when I made it several years ago"
I make about as much as my tradie brothers, maybe slightly more, but why would I want to make many times more money and not be able to grill with my brothers anymore because I live far away in some coastal heck area eating veggie burgers with Asian and "South Asians" complaining about white people constantly? :(
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I burned out after my very first dev job because I was building things I didn't care about which didn't matter to anyone but the owners trying to grift venture capital. I unironically considered throwing myself off the top of my apartment complex a couple times.
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yeah I know deep down I don't have what it takes to deal with that kind of bs
maybe it would be different if I had a personal mission that made it worth enduring, like someone I love has cancer and I need to make money for them, or I want to move myself and my family to the US
it's crazy to read about the lives of silicon valley people and they are talking about how their nootropics for performancemaxxing and how it might interact with their prescription happy pills and anxiety meds, and they just pretend like their life is GREAT all the time, "look at my battlestation with urban views (that I never use), haha"
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When I was in college I read a lot of books about the OGs of the tech sphere. The guys who were genuine trailblazers in the 70s-80s doing nerd shit that nobody really understood the value of yet. Those guys were building shit that mattered, and that was fricking cool. Silicon Valley as it exists today is just pathetic, and honestly I have nothing but disdain and contempt for the people who work in the modern tech sphere. So when I wake up and find out 12,000 pieces of shit got laid off from Google it honestly makes my Friday.
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Sounds like me!
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I mean I understand it to an extent but grindmaxxing for five years in your 20s is a good move. A senior position at MANGA will let you work remote anywhere you want.
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