Google employees from Flutter, Dart and Python claim the company is reducing roles, while others claim the roles are being moved to new locations.
Google has laid off hundreds of staff in multiple times, as the tech giant appears to be undergoing a period of reorganisation.
One Google employee – Thomas Wouters – claimed on Mastodon that everyone he works with directly “had their roles reduced”. Wouters claims to work on Google’s Python team. He also claims that he’s been asked “to onboard their replacements, people told to take those very same roles just in a different country who are not any happier about it”.
In one X post, a Google PM from Flutter and Dart claimed the layoffs had affected “a LOT of teams,” and that “lots of great projects lost people”.
CNBC claims it learned that at least 200 employees from Google’s ‘Core’ teams took place and that some roles were moved to India and Mexico. Meanwhile, a Google spokesperson confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunchbut did not specify which teams were impacted or how many staff were laid off.
Michael Thomsen, a project manager for Dart and Flutter, said there was “misinformation circulating” about the two teams and claimed there are no strategy changes and no change in team size – as “some devops roles” are moving to new locations.
The confirmation of layoffs at Google follows a confirmation from the tech giant in January that it cut hundreds of staff from multiple divisions. A spokesperson told SiliconRepublic.com at the time company was “responsibly investing” in its biggest priorities and “the significant opportunities ahead”.
The number of job losses from that wave of cuts were unclear, but a report by The Verge suggested that at least a thousand staff were impacted as a few hundred staff were cut from multiple divisions, including its core engineering and Google Assistant teams.
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