Leads across Google are sending coordinated emails within their orgs announcing layoffs. They've all gone out in the last 2 hours or so.
They've fragmented the layoffs on purpose to make them seem more localized, but it's affecting the whole company.
Orgs that I've heard/I'm part of that have been impacted so far include Ads, Search, Assistant, Maps Android & Core.
I'm sure there are more, but I can't confirm.
I can't find WARN notices yet, so I assume they haven't been filed yet in any state.
And yet Sundar is happy to destroy morale by keeping to fire people.
after saying "Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, Says Laying Off 12,000 Workers Was the Worst Moment in the Company's 25-Year History"
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/googles-ceo-sundar-pichai-say...
That's not what the stock ticker says. That's what the CEO's job is at megacorps, not "product innovation". Google has one core product, Ads.
Everything else loses money.
Ad setup doesn't work, you are hitting random errors on setting up API calls, basic UX and non-functional pixel setups, some weird limits or even plain unresponsive pages.
Just few days ago, talking to their support about ficitonal ad account limit after hitting 5 ad accoutns, they responded to me randomly with system messages in vietnamese - my acc has never had association with vietnamese.
Microsoft built a whole another company called Azure. Smartly acquired 2 other companies called LinkedIn and Github. Then invested early in the biggest phenomenon of the post covid world - Openai.
Google ended the 2000s with Ads, Search, Youtube and Android. It's 2023 and not much has changed. Facebook sustains it's growth entirely through multi-billion$ acquisitions.
In all cases, the original middle management did very little to help.
Azure is the only exception.
You have?
I mean this seriously:
Who are you (not name, but in terms of your significance in the community), and why does it matter what you've been saying for a while now?
Of course, knowing how to code and being good at creating software are two different things. Just like knowing how to write and being able to succeed as a novelist are two different things.
But that is also why the "best of the field" get laid off - why pay FAANG salaries to get the best, when entry/mid-level salaries to get "good enough" still meets business needs?
Of course, normal users use the terminal as much now as they do, then, but mostly because "they don't ever have to"[0], but yet they're able to accomplish things that might have been relegated to the category of "computer programming" just a decade ago.
Programming software is just another way of using a computer in a more advanced manner than mere mortals. Programming gets simpler, more enter the field, junior developers become more powerful and the difference between the expert and the novice increases or decreases depending on which direction you look at it from.
In 1986, my Dad, a non-programmer, and a "power user" but not expert in PCs, used Lotus 1-2-3 to design an invoicing and accounting tool that had a UI, forms, printed formatted output and tracked everything in a database-like manner in a file. I called him a non-programmer, but was he?
[0] When your PC boots into a `C>`, you better know what to type to get it to do something other than that.
meanwhile gen z have no concept of file browsers or the command line, they've only ever dealt in apps.
Maybe a better chant for town hall meetings would be "We're number 2! We're number 2!"...
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Hasn't this group of people always comprised like 90% of the Everyone Can Code group?
It's good if this way of thinking dies. It does a disservice to those taking the course, and it does a disservice to the industry.
From my understanding core developer is somebody who works on something fundamental, like build system, general monorepo structure and architecture.
I would be curious to hear insights if anyone has understanding or experience in these roles.
(Our job postings are all published on the usual job database sites under the usual sysadmin/opseng titles, and I don’t have any sort of special intake process to offer beyond that.)
> Google: the tax change was minimal, because Google was voluntarily amortizing software development expenses for most staff, already. This was for all projects that reached “technological feasibility,” which is a milestone products pass before public release.
Source: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
the reason it's shit for tech is the greed of wall street. they want more short term gains
Even this is overstating it. It's shit for some segments of the tech sector, but in other segments it's going gangbusters. On the whole, it doesn't seem unusually good or bad.
Nature is healing itself. The boom cycle is over. Correction is in the process.
Not surprised
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