Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team::The tech giant is making the move as hiring slows, but says it will retain a significant majority of recruiting staff.

  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Larger companies are extremely siloed. I would imagine that Google is even worse since it has some very distinct business separations. (ie: Alphabet is “not” Google)

    When mass layoffs happen, there are still going to be other lines of business that are hiring. People can get fired from one, talk to a recruiter and walk to another business.

    Edit: In some weird cases, a single group could be forced to meet layoff AND hiring requirements. That only makes sense at the executive level where they are looking at numbers as a whole and not the line-level logic.

    My experience is isolated to large US banks though. Layoffs were more like a huge game of musical chairs rather than thousands of people actually leaving the company.

    Edit: It’s also super easy to bury a single persons grievances as well. Sure, there could have been some nasty things happening at work, but retaliation by mixing up someone into a mass layoff is also a thing.

    Once the sub-business layoffs are done and people have found a new seat, recruiting and HR are next in the crosshairs.

    This is not always the case! However, it is common for mega-corps, in my personal experience.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen the same thing, also at large banks. I call it management by spreadsheet. The executives make the numbers work on their spreadsheets, with little care for how ridiculous the implementation is on the ground.

      BTW, you guys hiring? ;-)