[xcrjm]

Theoretically you have a point. On the other hand it’s so bad for recruiting. I view companies that do large layoffs the same way I view companies that do a lot of contract hiring. You clearly don’t care about employees and their wellbeing.

[twojobsoneboss]

Be real, it’s google. They could layoff 10k every month for another year and still have people lining up from around the world to get in

[tarsinge]

Google was so impactful in redefining work environment in the 2000s that people have now a very hard time getting over them being now just another old school big corporation. I remember in the early 2010s the aura Google had here on HN was crazy, I guess 10 years are still not enough to destroy that image.

[eitally]

To be fair, though, even if the culture isn't the same as ten years ago, the perks (and pay) generally are. For people who want to work in a technical role and who may be in traditional enterprise IT, looking up to big tech (including Google) is still pretty rational.

[twojobsoneboss]

Bingo if you can get a decent package and their stock continues to do well, that is life changing money

[ToxicMegacolon]

Seems like direct path to becoming IBM to be honest

[noobermin]

Pretty sure google's new management would love to be IBM, it's the perfect fit for people like them.

[rbanffy]

IBM still makes cool things. Google serves ads.

[taylodl]

Be real - those kind of people aren’t worth hiring!

[Quazil]

They haven't been able to hire talent in over a decade. The only "talent" that ever considers working there is kids fresh out of school.

Once it's a woke shithole no one important will work there. You can fleece them for money but no one capable of material contribution goes to google.

Consider what was their last usable innovation? Making their web email client less usable? A third-rate cloud service? They don't even have a usable quantum computer; just a toy. Their flagship product is a pay-to-censured search engine. It's a giant company of assholes.

[emodendroket]

If it's localized to one company it is but that's the beauty of a sector-wide slowdown... where are they going to go instead?

[nebula8804]

Maybe we can see this as a positive, if it gets bad enough, the people coming into tech from the bootcamps who just did it for the money might move onto other fields.

[emodendroket]

Isn’t that why anyone does any job? Even if you love tinkering with computers the reality of a job involves a lot of other stuff.

[nebula8804]

Eh, I guess I have a different mentality about this. There are people that just love what they do for their job. Sure they can go from job to job but they actually enjoy doing the work. I grew up during a time when the CS department at my college was loserville. No one wanted to be there except the people truly passionate about the field and the department did not get much respect from the rest of my (engineering) school because of these small enrollment numbers(relative to the other departments).

Now its one of the largest programs on the east coast. Its cool that more people appreciate the field but as a small kid, I decided that I would have gone into this field even if it did not pay the big bucks so it was a no brainer when I enrolled.

[dcrow0]

TF? since when do corporations give a shit about you?