Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28431012
- Google is set to cut hundreds of new jobs in its device and platforms divisions soon.
- The company has continued to cut its Google Pixel teams, doing so earlier this year as well.
- Rival Microsoft is considering a new round of layoffs next month, per reports.
If this means they quit changing random shit for no reason and focus on fixing bugs, I'm all for it.
Programmers who maintain code get laid off, programmers who create new code get promoted.
These kind of lay-offs always result in more bugs and more fucking up shit for no reason.
Google cut nearly a thousand other employees in its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit and Voice Assistant units in January this year, while it cut “only a few teams” in its Cloud Computing division in February. The largest round of cuts came in early 2023 when Google’s parent firm Alphabet announced it would cut 12 000 jobs, or six percent of its global workforce.
Ouch
