Posted on 02/08/2024 10:09:11 AM PST by libh8er
Top brass at Google have laid off thousands of employees over the past year. As a result, according to multiple recent reports, staff morale is suffering badly, and workers are increasingly public about the slump.
Workers’ posts online and details from a company Q&A session on Friday, as reported by the Verge, paint an ugly picture of the Mountain View tech giant’s current employee-boss relations. Long known as a bastion for innovation and a cushy environment for engineers, Google and its work culture are now getting skewered as overly corporate and generally aimless.
Google employees can submit questions in advance for town halls, and their peers can vote on whether they’d like for that question to be answered. One of the top upvoted questions for the Feb. 2 meeting called out “a growing rift between leadership and employees,” the Verge reported.
“We get that execs are excited about Google’s future,” another question reportedly said. “Why should we be excited, when we might get laid off and not be around to share in that future? If we lose our jobs and equity grants, it’s cold comfort that Google is succeeding off our hard work, and we don’t get rewarded for it, but you do.”
The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.
“We are going through a moment with some uncertainty in it,” he reportedly said later in the meeting. “This is how it is in most companies around the world at all times..
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Speaking of deadwood, Google laid off 12000 people last year and their stock has done very well all of 2023. So maybe the bosses know what they are doing.
That description of “programmers” is about the most accurate I’ve ever seen except for the part about attractiveness. After a bath or two, a shave and a change of clothes I’m told I clean up real nice.
“They gave me the whole job and left me alone for a decade - until Big Acquiring Company’s internal auditors started demanding too much tribute”
i’d very much like to hear the results, both before and after B.A.C.!
I guess no employee has ever thought there bosses were inept or boring. Don’t know why this is news?
B. A. C. absorbed all of S. M. C. (Small Rich Company’s) operations into their own over a period of seven years, moving them piece by piece from California to New Jersey. I left a few months before my piece (last and largest) was to be moved. I think B. A. C. ended up losing 90% of S. M. R.’s customer base in the process, but they were so big they didn’t seem that upset - everything was fine as long as the internal controls were followed. :)
“B. A. C. ended up losing 90% of S. M. R.’s customer base in the process”
ah, gee, that’s a shame ...
You knew that was coming when they got rid of the “Don’t be evil” motto years ago.
Equity grant is a more generic term. Its giving employees stock, one way or another, like stock options.
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