is the company in a hiring freeze? is it pure layoffs now?

Someone posted on another site that ISM will have layoffs the week of 9/14. They wound up taking down the post. Is this rumor true? If yes, how many and affected locations?

I am hearing rumours of Google Home layoffs. Any official confirmation ?

cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity. sundar sits calmly at the head of the table. a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187. “the agenda... — read more 

I was called by a recruiter offering me a position at fitbit division. What are your thoughts ?

https://www.kqed.org/news/12091358/4500-google-employees-demand-job-security-amid-big-tech-layoffs

The news comes in an especially delicate context for tech employment. In just five months of 2026, companies in the sector have accumulated nearly 140,000 layoffs... — read more 

How long do Americans have left before AI, offshore workers and H1B visas take the last of the jobs left?

Is it true that at Google employees over 50 are viewed as not being in touch with technology and thus, forced out or laid off? I’ve heard this affects women more.

As the Alphabet soup continues to do mini layoffs to avoid UK government thresholds. Looks like they will pick out people that work remotely, going as far to include peeps working 2 days a week from home.

Hi, Back in 2024, I wrote @OP+1tugivWq where I shared information on PIP changes at Google (as opposed to Alphabet). I felt it was appropriate to write an update for 2026. First, let me be clear: This past GRAD results season appears to have been a... — read more 

Found this site where you can anonymously rate your job on two axes. One is how hard the work actually is and the other is how bad the people are to deal with. They call it Pain Level and A--hole Coefficient which honestly tracks. Would be... — read more 

Entire Workspace Team GONE along with 50% of the Apigee team globally (now reporting into regions hence various mgt roles gone) adds up given the new hire HC in AI roles!

Are there re-orgs or layoffs of managers or senior leaders in ad sales teams? Or is that generally a safe place to be?

Question: HR and manager did read my termination blurb. During the call announce they will pay severance which appears to cover about 3 months of salary. Great since I was about to leave anyway to join a startup. I imagine there is no stock... — read more 

Massive layoff on the third week of January 2026

Google told staff it will ramp up PERM applications next year, per a memo seen by Business Insider. PERM is the first step for securing a green card. Google paused applications in 2023. Staff must meet certain criteria to be PERM-eligible... — read more 

How likely is that there will be Google layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Political company, does not give a sh-t for its employees. Run!

... Will be the punchline for this fuggin' bubble. LMAO!!!

YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its... — read more 

I’d take it without a second thought. If what some people are saying is true, that voluntary packages have been offered to some recently, and that another big round of layoffs is coming by early 2026 the latest, I really hope they roll out a VP... — read more 

More layoff will come quarter by quarter.

Google Cloud has laid off employees despite record-breaking financial results. Workers in user experience and design roles were among those affected, with several posting about the cuts on LinkedIn. Notifications were sent via email earlier this... — read more 

Me and a few others I know were offered voluntary exit packages. This is likely a precursor to layoffs in a few months or early 2026

Fees changing to 100k. Google lowballs candidates hard so I doubt they will pay this unless the candidate is spectacular.

These cuts may save Google mere thousands; they also come as Google faces increasingly strained relationships with news publishers. August data from the trade association Digital Content Next showed median referral traffic from Google Search to... — read more 

Google has laid off over 200 contractors who worked on improving its AI product offerings, Gemini, and search AI overviews, according to Wired. Some were told it was part of a "ramp-down" on the project they were working on, but others believe it was... — read more 

Verily, Google’s life sciences and healthcare arm, has announced a major restructuring that includes layoffs and the shutdown of its medical devices program. CEO Stephen Gillet told staff in a memo that the company must make “difficult decisions” to... — read more 

Antitrust war won. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/google_doj_antitrust_ruling/

A Google executive told employees last week that in the past year, the company has gotten rid of a third of its managers overseeing small teams. “We have to be more efficient as we scale up so we don’t solve everything with headcount,” Google CEO... — read more 

How much longer before we lose relevance in search and email? Can we make it on YouTube / Waymo? Any other revenue streams gaining traction?

TV team reportedly slashed by 25 percent as AI and YouTube take centre stage. https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/more-layoffs-at-google-tv-team-reportedly-slashed-by-25-percent-as-ai-and-youtube-take-centre-stage/ar-AA1Hiwqb

Truth. Google had a good run. The gravy train is over.

And move funds to AI.

Google is starting to offer buyouts to US-based employees in its sprawling Search organization, along with other divisions like marketing, research, and core engineering, according to multiple employees familiar with the... — read more 

In a Bloomberg interview Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company’s... — read more