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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google layoffs: The company plans to set up a new team in Munich, Germany which would act as "cheaper" labour, the report claimed.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

Please treat this as an explanation, and not an apology for big tech. If you work in tech, or are thinking about it, understand the rules of the game :

  1. First, a new skill goes hot - maybe functionally superior, may just be a trend. In tech, it’s always the new shiny.

  2. Demand for skills outstrips supply

  3. Salaries go up !

  4. Big tech flex, offer big money to hoover up the talent. Sometimes it’s for projects, sometimes it’s just to keep them out of the hands of competition, in case the trend becomes a standard

  5. Time passes

  6. Chasing big salaries, lots of people acquire the skill.

  7. Supply outstrips demand, skill becomes a commodity.

  8. Salaries come down

  9. Big Tech is still paying huge salaries, for skills that may have stopped trending, but at the very least - are now available at market at a much lower rate. If you include globalisation, it could be 30% of what they are paying.

  10. The high salary hires get cut, because there’s a new skill trending, or, the same skill is now available at much lower rate .

  11. Everyone is shocked !

This has been tech workers life cycle for at least 30 years, and I don’t see it changing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sounds like these CEOs suck at CEOing

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