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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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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