The report that this article reports on from was discussed a few days ago:<p><i>Google's CEO faces employee questions about layoffs</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236229">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236229</a> - Feb 2024 (22 comments)<p>Submitters: "<i>Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.</i>" - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>
Well, the place has been a retirement home for a few years now. Of course Googlers will say "Everyone I know works really hard" but I know enough coasters there to know that this is a selection effect because none of the coasters ever posted on HN. One guy got laid off and it took effect half a year in the future, at which point he got severance, and when that ended he applied and now works at another part of Google. Hahaha.
It must be really weird both for the FAANGs themselves and their employees - if laid off there’s only a handful of other companies one can go to to get similar total comp, and worse,
many of them aren’t hiring right now<p>So getting laid off from a FAANG is like twice as bad as getting laid off from <other tech company>