Google Layoffs: 450 Employees In India Laid Off, Says Report

Even as tech layoffs are happening the world over together with large tech like Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo, amongst others, the Google layoffs have reached Indian shores. Reportedly, the tech large has laid of 450-480 staff from varied departments in India late night time.

As per a report by CNBC TV18, the staff who had been into dotted line reporting or didn’t have any direct managers have been laid off.

Many staff in Hyderabad and Bangalore working as degree 4 software program builders, backend developer, cloud engineers and digital entrepreneurs have are those who’ve been laid off.

The layoffs in India additionally occurred by way of mails similar to the way it occurred in US.

Further some staff of Google India have posted on LinkedIn concerning the layoff.

Kamal Dave, account supervisor at Google’s Gurugram, Haryana workplace posted on LinkedIn that he was impacted by the layoff that occurred yesterday as roles within the digital advertising Goals have been minimize.

Another worker Saptak Mohanta, program supervisor at Google posted that “Absolutely gutted to lose lots of my sensible colleagues and mates as a part of Google’s layoffs in Singapore and India final night time. It’s going to take all of us a while to heal from this.”

In January, Google announced laying off 12,000 workers, as the economic boom that the industry rode during the Covid-19 pandemic ebbs.

In an email to the employees, CEO Sundar Pichai had said that: “The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.”

Pichai mentioned that the corporate has employed for ‘periods of dramatic growth’ over the previous two years however that was a ‘different economic reality than the one we face today.’ He mentioned the layoffs mirror a ‘rigorous review’ that Google carried out of product areas and features.

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