Useless C-level executives focusing on short term gains from RIFs rather than innovating.<p>G is just a shadow of it’s former self. I can’t wait for the great G disruption
After hearing for years and years that Google hires for people first, and then assigns you a team, this is a big surprise! Somehow all the worst performers at Google ended up on the same teams and they had to fire them en masse? Or is Google just another tech company now?
Notably Fitbit and AR are now dead: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24033994/google-reorganization-fitbit-park-friedman-ar-layoffs" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24033994/google-reorganiz...</a>
I always had a special place for Google in my heart, since 2008. And never thought they would lay people off. It's sad really, despite I never having worked with them. I feel pretty gloomy about tech career overall. Is it even worth continuing to learn fundamentals and stuff?
I admit that I never understood what was going on with Google's voice assistant. As a user for the past 4-5 years or so (mainly using smart home devices), it hasn't shown improvement in quality; at times, it even seems to regress. What were all those people doing day to day??? This is a serious question.<p>I remember thinking the same thing about Twitter: Why do they have all those employees? And, with an 80% reduction in workforce, they are still operating. Yes, the new management is ruining the business side of things, but the service is still functional in the same way as it was 3 years ago.
Google is no longer on Glassdoor's best places to work list.<p>Best Places to Work 2023:<p><pre><code> 1. Gainsight
2. Box
3. Bain & Company
4. McKinsey & Company
5. NVIDIA
6. MathWorks
7. Boston Consulting Group
8. Google
9. ServiceNow
10. In-N-Out Burger
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Best Places to Work 2024:<p><pre><code> 1. Bain & Company
2. NVIDIA
3. ServiceNow NOW
4. MathWorks
5. Procore Technologies
6. In-N-Out Burger
7. VMware VMW
8. Deltek
9. 2020 Companies
10. Fidelity Investments</code></pre>
Look. When your execs summarily execute the morale of the entire sales org to position investor narrative, you know the company is in deep shit.<p>Gemini Pro (future) beats GPt4 (today) by single digit percent when you use COT 32x - aka spend insane amounts of money. It’s bullshit.<p>The layoffs will continue until growth can be achieved. Which in AI is a long time away for them.