Google and Salesforce alone comprise a staggering number of 2023’s layoffs so far; between them, 20,000 workers were affected. But Friday’s layoffs at Google, based in Mountain View, appeared to be a particularly ominous portent for what’s to come this year in the industry. On Blind, the anonymous job forum, multiple users lamented the Google layoffs, in part because of how resistant the company has been to layoffs up to this point.
For as alarming as these layoffs are, they come after what Layoffs.fyi founder Roger Lee described as an “unprecedented hiring spree” in tech during a pandemic-era period of favorable industry conditions.
Go woke, get broke
If the Democrats didn’t destroy the economy, it would not have been so bad.
Keep it up. Maybe eventually those of us from here will be able to afford a home