Even more Google layoffs: This time it’s “significant” cuts to recruiting::Google plans to slow down hiring, and that means fewer recruiters.

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    Google has spent the past decade killing their brand. They’d launch new services, get people using them, then remove them with little notice.

    Now they are ruining Chrome with their DRM initiatives, causing people to switch to Firefox.

    Google search is getting really really bad to the point I’m having to use AI and alternative resources on some topics.

    Waiting for them to ruin gmail next.

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      Google search is effcetievly hiding the internet from us. So many blogs where I know things by word I can’t find anymore. Everything is only an Ad or the official website. I miss the days of GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle.com.

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      It’s like an abusive relationship for me. I still use Google, convincing myself that their products are good and that they have my best interests in heart. Despite knowing it’s not true and that my favorite services are bound to get killed or enshittifed.

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      Google search is effcetievly hiding the internet from us. So many blogs where I know things by word I can’t find anymore. Everything is only an Ad or the official website. I miss the days of GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle.com.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Google was once a company that lavished its employees with perks and didn’t do layoffs, but that’s not the Google of 2023.

    Even after the 12,000 layoffs from about January to March, a second round of Waymo layoffs in March, and the Waze layoffs in June, Google is now doing another round of layoffs.

    This time, it’s in the recruiting division.

    Semafor was the first to report that Google is laying off “hundreds” of people in its global recruiting organization as part of an overall plan to reduce the number of people it hires in the near future.

    CNBC received a recording of the internal meeting, with Brian Ong, Google’s recruiting vice president, telling employees the new round of layoffs was "not something that was an easy decision to make, and it definitely isn’t a conversation any of us wanted to have again this year.” Ong justified the decision, saying, “Given the base of hiring that we’ve received the next several quarters, it’s the right thing to do overall.”

    A Google spokesperson told CNBC that Google plans to “meaningfully [slow] the pace of our overall hiring.”


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