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Sorry man, awful feeling
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Tech layoffs keep coming, this time Alphabet (Google) to lay off 12k employees.
slappy
All-American
1/20/23 8:06am
This sucks, but it may be good in spreading out that talent in the long run.
Ojiisan
1/20/23 8:11am
The problem is that the majority of the layoffs are not the top-performers.
RH84025
1/20/23 9:02am
FWIW, with alphabet it was primarily role-based, not merit-based.
SalmonOfCapistrano
1/20/23 2:23pm
eg. high-performing engineers on the self-driving toilet project got laid off,
SalmonOfCapistrano
1/20/23 2:24pm
They obviously have the money to not layoff staff, so they are cutting bloat. If they did this in a normal market, their
specsauce
1/20/23 8:13am
The real tough layoffs haven't even started yet. Retail is next.
rad dawg
1/20/23 8:14am
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cougarfann888
1/20/23 9:07am
My company had about a 5% reduction yesterday. Same day my wife got laid off
rommeliv
1/20/23 8:17am
That sucks, sorry
conflictedcoug
1/20/23 8:20am
I started a new job in tech about 4 months ago
BigBlue04
1/20/23 8:26am
Yikes. Big tech or startup?
macdizzle
1/20/23 8:28am
Somewhere in between
BigBlue04
1/20/23 9:15am
Sorry man, awful feeling
Covid-19
1/20/23 8:33am
So, aren't we now supposed to boycott Alphabet and encourage advertisers to
Iman23
1/20/23 8:34am
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