[vineyardmike]

I don’t think people were fools for falling in love with their employer. Naive maybe. But Google was really nice to employees and (intentionally) made it easy to forget you were a number in the capitalist machine. They listened and responded to employees, they made work more comfortable and easy with perks, and they regularly changed to stay up to date on what helped employees.

> ...and hopefully no one is naive enough to think Google is "done"...after next earnings I expect an even bigger round

I haven’t seen it talked about anywhere. I’m an ex-googler from layoffs. My old team was massively impacted and some coworkers were put on “delayed exit” to wind down their projects by fall. I don’t know the extent of it company wide but on my old team, the lay offs and delayed exit were 1:1 roughly.

[newaccount2023]

> I haven’t seen it talked about anywhere. I’m an ex-googler from layoffs

Why would you hear about a confidential layoff plan??

[vineyardmike]

People have been notified about their “delayed exit”. Like you get an email that says “your job ends in October” type of notice.

It’s not confidential, afaik, since people were told about it. I’m surprised no one offers up their status as part of it in discussions.

[newaccount2023]

so he can just announce another delayed exit...

every layoff so far has had a month or more between announcement and implementation

[vineyardmike]

Not Google, the company in question. They announced layoffs same day.