Never mind the record revenues, costs must be cut

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.”

  • eskimofry@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Ptsf@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      They’ll just buy the entire startups back using their mountain of accumulated wealth and the cycle will repeat.

      • eskimofry@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • Ptsf@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          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.