Posted on 09/13/2023 2:07:04 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Google confirmed it will lay off hundreds of staff members who helped recruit and hire employees, as Silicon Valley continues its cost-cutting efforts.
The latest cuts come after Google parent Alphabet in January eliminated 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, across the company as it grappled with economic uncertainty that hit the company’s bottom line last year, especially its core advertising business.
During Google’s July earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company was continuing to slow its “expense growth and pace of hiring.”
“We continue to invest in top engineering and technical talent while also meaningfully slowing the pace of our overall hiring,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in a statement Wednesday, adding that the workload for recruiters has declined as hiring slows. “To ensure we operate efficiently, we’ve made the hard decision to reduce the size of our recruiting team.”
The layoffs were earlier reported by Semafor and CNBC.
The cuts will affect a few hundred members of Google’s recruiting organization globally; most of the team will remain and continue hiring for critical roles such as top engineering talent, according to Google. The company did not specify the exact number of layoffs in the department.
Google also said the recruiting cuts are not part of any wider layoffs, and that affected employees will be supported with severance offers and other benefits.
Some Google recruiters for the company’s cloud, user experience, software engineering and other teams posted on LinkedIn, noting they had been affected by the layoffs.
“My heart is heavy for everyone that was impacted alongside me, and I know better days are ahead for all of us as much as today doesn’t feel like it,” one affected Google recruiter wrote.
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"...economic challenges..." *SNORT*
Let's Go, Brandon!
They’ve decided to just let the FBI and CIA feed their new employees directly
Learn to code. Oh wait, thousands of high-tech layoffs are coders. If you can code, you can learn to be a roofer, or something.
This hits close to home. I am a laid off coder....
Whenever a HR person gets laid off, an angel gets their wings.
Sorry to hear that. No disrespect meant. I think coding is an good profession. But when our betters tell hard working laid off miners and others to “learn to code”, now that’s disrespectful.
More good news!
Indeed. Bad government policy hurts everyone in all professions. And changing professions is not always very easy. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I’m pretty good at code but would make a horrible miner.
“Whenever a HR person gets laid off, an angel gets their wings.”
LOL!
They are being replaced by AI since AI doesn’t require lounges, cafes, fitness, massage, yoga, etc.
“top engineering and technical talent”
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censors.
...so hundreds of angels will be getting their wings..? Cool.
AI is much better at spouting leftist talking points—it just looks up the topic in Wikipedia—can keep up with minute to minute changes—instant obedience.
The layoffs were all straight white men./s Just a coincidence.
Does Google employ straight white men?
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are screwed.
Its only bad if Elon Musk does it.
The drones are thrown out of the hive in autumn.
Still don’t understand why you have a recruitment department within HR. The departments themselves should be recruiting and hiring the people they need, and all HR should be doing is handling the paperwork.
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