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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Get fucked Google
If all of us fire all of our employee at the same time, then all of us hire each other employee again, we will got them cheaper.
I’m really starting to think Google has gone to shit now.
It got much worse around 2018, but they are speed running.
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Google, who was famous for employing Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) is now firing their python team. I wonder why they didn't reassign them to the ML/AI division.
Guido van Rossum is working at Microsoft now.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know how big was the team?
Python team was ~10 people I think
10 * 350k of total comp is 3.5 million dollars... guessing the german counterparts probably get 120k of total comp so only 1.2 million dollars, assuming it's 1:1 staff swap.
Never heard of american software engineers at FAANG getting anything less than superstar sf bay wages, never heard of crazy wages in all of the EU for any kind of worker.... but maybe someone can correct me on the german team's salaries.
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I believe it was entirely big.
Sundar Pichai will go down as one of the worst tech CEOs. Dude appears as such a nice guy from podcasts I've listened with him but really awful at his job and has zero consistent personality. He's a straight up corporate robot with no original opinions or idealogies. Unfortunately, none of that is visible or really matters because Google has infinite source of ad money so any KPIs are made irrelevant.
The KPIs are coming for their Ads Money too. I commented elsewhere about how Search is being bent to the will of Ads, and it's Raghaven who's being enabled by Sundar to do it. They've been hit with the problem that Ads isn't growing as expected. Having worked with the new Google Ads dashboard, it's no wonder why. It's clunky, the mobile app is missing functionality, and the web app is broken on mobile. Throw on top the constant interruptions due to their AI flagging perfectly normal campaigns, and it's enough to push people elsewhere. Sundar is the Ballmer of Google, and unless he's deposed he will drive Google down the path the likes of IBM or Oracle.
It's like he looked at Carly Fiorina's run on HP and said "hold my beer".
The only staff who need firing is Sundar. Google and android should have been easy better by now but he made them stagnant.
Android is still the best mobile os but it could have been even better under better leadership. Plus they could have enabled and experimented with the OEM's to allow for additional hardware buttons, button remapping, a native Dex on all Androids, official gcam port to all OEM's so they don't need to make their own camera algorithms and even the cheapest droid could have had flagship level cameras.
And we haven't even touched on software yet....
Fire his useless ass
Why would it be in googles interest to provide better cameras to OEMs? Google has to love that people buy pixel phones because other vendors cameras are years behind
Because the market is bigger than Pixels and they could license much of it (I'd like to see more of it as open source, but it's easier for a corporation to justify licensing the cutting edge stuff). I think a lot of OEMs would like access to Night Sight
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