Current and former Google employees have publicly expressed their disappointment with the way the company’s management has carried out a new wave of layoffs, writes New York Post.
One of them is Diane Hirsch Theriault, who reacted to the news that several hundred people from her advertising sales team had been fired.
“From the C-suite to the SVPs to the VPs, they are all profoundly boring and glassy-eyed,” Diane Hirsh Theriault wrote on her LinkedIn page on Wednesday.
Former engineering manager Kenneth Smith, who lost his job at Google, also expressed dissatisfaction.
“Call me old school, but I think that if you find yourself in a situation where you need to let someone go, you owe it to them to meet them face-to-face, look them in the eyes, and acknowledge their humanity,” he wrote on his LinkedIn account.
Kenneth Smith added that one of his supervisors contacted him after the news of the dismissal broke. Meanwhile, Gergely Orosch, the head of the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, called Google a “faceless corporation” in response to a post by a former employee.
“Google [is] successfully cementing their reputation as the place that after years of service, all you get is an email from the system that you’re fired,” he noted.
Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai advised the company’s employees to prepare for new layoffs in 2024. Shortly before that, Google announced the layoffs of hundreds of employees in several of its teams. Last January, it became known that the company was laying off 12 thousand employees.
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