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Work stuph
Jan. 21st, 2023 08:25 amI work at Google. As of last night, I appear to still work at Google, but one member of my ten-member team doesn’t.
There has of course been no official announcement of any specific names of people laid off, but somebody posted a way you can tell: using an in-house access management app that many Googlers use every day, look at the list of people who have a particular access, and the recently laid-off show up in red as “excluded”.
The teammate in question was fairly new, having worked for Google for a bit over a year, but we have more recent hires who didn’t get laid off. I have no idea how the company decided whom to fire, and no criteria have been announced. Those in the US have been informed by email, and then immediately lost their work email accounts (I’m not sure how those two facts interact), while those outside the US haven’t been informed yet.
Google says those laid off will continue to get paid for at least two months, will get severance packages of twelve weeks’ pay plus two weeks per year they were at Google, and will have health insurance and immigration assistance for at least six months. But with all the other tech companies laying off too, it won’t be easy for those folks to find new jobs. And getting fired so abruptly, with no warning, is really rough.
There has of course been no official announcement of any specific names of people laid off, but somebody posted a way you can tell: using an in-house access management app that many Googlers use every day, look at the list of people who have a particular access, and the recently laid-off show up in red as “excluded”.
The teammate in question was fairly new, having worked for Google for a bit over a year, but we have more recent hires who didn’t get laid off. I have no idea how the company decided whom to fire, and no criteria have been announced. Those in the US have been informed by email, and then immediately lost their work email accounts (I’m not sure how those two facts interact), while those outside the US haven’t been informed yet.
Google says those laid off will continue to get paid for at least two months, will get severance packages of twelve weeks’ pay plus two weeks per year they were at Google, and will have health insurance and immigration assistance for at least six months. But with all the other tech companies laying off too, it won’t be easy for those folks to find new jobs. And getting fired so abruptly, with no warning, is really rough.
