Updated Google’s latest round of layoffs have hit engineers working on its Flutter and Python teams.
Despite Alphabet last week reporting a 57 percent year-on-year jump in net profit to $23.66 billion for calendar Q1, more roles are being expunged as the mega-corp cracks down on costs.
The Python team is reportedly affected and an undisclosed number of Flutter and Dart engineers have been let go.
A Reddit account under the name of Kevin Moore, a Google Product Manager for Flutter and Dart, posted: "The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that.)
“Lots of good folks got bad news and lots of great projects lost people. Flutter and Dart were not affected any more or less [than] others. It was a tough day… tough week.”
I am actually hoping this causes lots of interesting startups from the good folks who leave google and then google gets disrupted by its own former employees in spite.
They’ll just buy the entire startups back using their mountain of accumulated wealth and the cycle will repeat.
Can’t buy if it’s a private company and the founders are refusing to sell. Especially if the founders were former google employees who got fired.
Morals and principles are all good and dandy until you’re staring down daddy Google (who can take millions in losses without blinking an eye) offering you a choice between a large check or competition with a business entity that doesn’t need to be profitable . There’s not a lot of people in the world who could stand up to that, even fewer so that would want to when the alternative is a worry free life sitting on whatever millions Google paid you while sipping Mai Tais on your private island.