[type-r]

it doesn't happen all the time. for Google, this is the first time they've ever done a large set of layoffs in their 25 year history.

[deelowe]

Ehh... Kinda. They used to focus more on cutting orgs/teams. Google was pretty notorious for doing the whole "your teams has been shut down, you have X days to find a new role or you can take this package and leave now."

[Apocryphon]

Sounds like a regression.