Last year, Google eliminated more than 12,000 roles in its hardware, shopping, core engineering, policy and ad sales teams. Its layoffs have carried into the new year, with Google cutting hundreds of people in its hardware, voice assistance and engineering divisions earlier this month. More fro...
So far, those “tough choices” have included layoffs and reorganizations in Google’shardware,ad sales, search, shopping, maps, policy, core engineering, andYouTube teams. “These role eliminations are not at the scale of last year’s reductions, and will not touch every team,” Pichai ...
Thousands of layoffs at Google in recent years have eroded institutional knowledge in search, Zitron said, and “they may have fired so many people that the thing doesn’t work anymore”. Google’s race to compete in the generative AI frenzy kicked off by the release of ChatGPT in 2022 “...
All that is on top ofGoogle’s mass layoffsin pursuit of resources to fund the company’s transition towards AI. Google definitely feels the heat: its position as the ultimate search engine has never been weaker. But if Google plays its cards right, SGE might be its way out. The stakes ...
While things looked positive in 2021, with various outlets reporting they generated around $15M in EBITDA, they’ve recently gone through another round of layoffs and named their third CEO in just three years. They’re still behind some sites worth following, like PopPhoto, Popular Science, ...
Amazon has continued to make new smart displays, even after losing$10 billion in 2022thanks to failures around the Alexa voice assistant. The Alexa team was reportedly hit hard by layoffs in 2022 and 2023, but new smart displays have come out since then. Apple still hasn't made a smart ...
Fab currently has 305 employees worldwide.” I thought this ended but clearly the fab layoffs will be seen in the news again. Remind me again – why fab will become like Amazon? Flipkart’s Myntra acquisition talks stalled for now and here’s why (Medianama) –...
Now. We’ve heard a lot about tech layoffs in the last year, including in the last six months. That’s true for many of the big tech players. They’ve been having layoffs all over the place. However, what I think we’re seeing since I started this episode talking about things back...
Meta announced a hiring freezefor employees in specific teams, including those who work on shopping features and Messenger Kids.TwitterandSpotifyhave also cut down on hiring, withApple planning a slowdown in 2023. Other companies, includingSubstack,Tesla, andNetflix, have had layoffs amidst an ...
Ranjan and Dukellis also outline leadership changes across the organization and the consolidation of teams. The restructuring comes with "a small number" of layoffs, they say.Axiosreports that that means "dozens of jobs... out of the thousands of employees who work on the Assistant." ...