[bagacrap]

Yes, clearly certain product areas were targeted which makes obvious business sense. But you're making it sound like high performers were actually targeted by these layoffs, which is patently ridiculous.

My own anecdata confirms that /only/ low performers or people working on projects that should never have existed to begin with were let go.

[bcrosby95]

I've some pretty "hilarious" things about the round of firing.

For example, one friend mentioned that someone on his team was let go while they were on call and actively handling a security incident.

Another person had two people critical to their project laid off. They didn't cut the whole team, just the two most critical people. Regardless, that team is kinda up shit creek now, but still employed by Google.