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A former Google software engineer expressed frustration about the company’s layoffs in a now-viral Tweet.
On Friday, it was announced Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc, cut about 12,000 jobs, according toReuters.
The post has garnered over 42,000 likes and 6 million views on the platform as of Monday. According to Joslin’sLinkedIn profile, the software engineer was hired at Google in March 2003.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the layoffs in a memo on Friday, reportedCNBC.
Pichai added: “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.”
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty
The company joined other tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, which announced a combined 28,000 job cuts last week, perCNN.
PEOPLE reached out to Google for comment on Monday afternoon.
A Twitter user responding to Joslin said they found out about the layoffs after receiving a notification that their phone service would end.
“I found out because I woke up to my phone sending me a notification that my phone service would be shut off soon,” theywrote. “And all my corp account stuff was locked out. Saw the email later.”
Joslinreplied: “Yeah I saw that notification too but thought it was just a bug. After I saw the email it made sense.”
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Joslin wasn’t the only Google veteran to write about being cut from the company.
“I was one of the 12,000 Googlers who woke up on Friday to Google’s: Notice regarding your employment,“wroteKyle Harrison, former Head of Product Management, on LinkedIn, adding that he had been at the company for more than 16 years.
Felipe Barros, a vendor manager, said his role was eliminated despite being a high performer.
Barros continued: “I’ve been at Google for 13 years and loved my time here. I am grateful for the experience of working with so many talent and awesome people who inspired me every single day.”
source: people.com
