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0 pointsjrockway3y ago0 comments

Where is Google doing layoffs? The latest news I have is that people are very worried about layoffs, but so far they've only started putting people on rebranded PIPs.

The other FAANGs are definitely laying people off, though. I personally think the recession is a self-fulfilling prophecy, but regardless of my take on the fundamentals, it is certainly fulfilling itself and everyone in tech should be pretty worried right now. This is not the year when you're going to increase your salary by jumping to a cool startup as employee #3.

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dasil0033y ago

> This is not the year when you're going to increase your salary by jumping to a cool startup as employee #3.

Agreed, you won't get a big salary out of the gate because unproven startups paying huge salaries are dropping like flies as the easy capital dries up. On the other hand, the likelihood of getting in on the ground floor of the next FAANG is increasing as staffing costs decrease and behavioral changes increase during a recession. EV obviously still higher at established top-of-market companies, but when has that ever not been the case?

kennend33y ago

you are correct, it has not happened yet, but you willing to bet it wont in the next 6 months?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-employees-brace...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-highe...

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