Google Cuts Managers and VPs in Efficiency Drive (businessinsider.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/20/1438217/google-cuts-managers-and-vps-in-efficiency-drive
- Source link: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-company-cut-manager-vp-roles-2024-12
The restructuring affected managers, directors, and vice presidents, with some roles eliminated and others converted to non-management positions, a Google spokesperson told BusinessInsider. The move follows Google's January 2023 [2]layoff of 12,000 employees and Pichai's September 2022 goal to improve company efficiency by 20%.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-company-cut-manager-vp-roles-2024-12
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/01/20/1240227/google-axes-12000-jobs
Jobs worldwide are going down for sure (Score:4, Insightful)
After Covid businesses knew cuts were going to happen, and now this has coupled with automation, inflation and other issues. Reaching my 50s and having tried both the corporate world and freelancing, I dont see the professional landscape healthy at all. At first I though it was because businesses preffer to hire younger people but now I dont know. It looks shrinking is the way to go to squeeze as much profit as possible (business as usual) but the underlying factors are making this a mess were salaries and opportunities are stagnant and we are only listening to the loud success cases. At some point I believed that it was people not willing to learn and jump into the automation train but now it seems the train is at 1000 mph and retraining and relearning is too much for the rate at which this is shifting (or shrinking).
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There may be technological reasons, but I wonder about what banks and elites do to focus on asset bubbles and wealth extraction. I have nothing against elites or corporations, but maybe there's perverse incentives at play. Maybe the game is to create funny money rather than genuine things of value.
Maybe decide on an objective first? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sure that Google can do whatever it does cheaper if it fires some people; but it feels weird for a company as erratic and rudderless as they are to be talking about 'efficiency'. Maybe don't develop and then cancel products apparently at random if you want to feel more efficient; rather than immediately moving to develop and then cancel products apparently at random but with 10-30% fewer staff?
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If anything the workload will increase post layoff. Fear will drive the employees to work longer hours in order to keep getting a paycheck. Since the job market isn't great right now, a lot of mediocre employees will not have any choice but to buckle down and do what management tells them to do.
If you have the financial means, or are one are lucky enough to get another job lined up. Get out. The problem with quitting and working for someone else is it typically won't be much better anywhere else, and you us
Not efficient enough (Score:2)
Cut Pichai's total compensation by 10%. That seems efficient.
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Er - this act was probably taken to justify Pichai's compensation. "Oh look, profit is up! See, me good! Need cookie!"
Typical end-of-year short term thinking.
I already told you (Score:4, Funny)
I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers dont have to. I have people skills.
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super-l0l
\o/ Only 90% to go (Score:1)
90% of managers feeling their positions under threat, up their game to ensure that they're able to prevent progress more than the original 100%.
Management bloat happens (Score:2)
Companies swing between extremes of having not enough managers to having too many. Don't worry they'll hire more managers in a year or so.
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As far as I can tell, management almost always slows down progress by inserting themselves into technical reviews, among other things
Of course my opinion is worth what you paid for it, and if you have better info, I would enjoy learning about it! (no sarcasm intended)
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Some management is healthy, too much is not. Case in point, look at my posts mod points. Who has the time to come here and read comments? Managers who used to work for twitter and currently work for Google.
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> As far as I can tell, management almost always slows down progress by inserting themselves into technical reviews, among other things
> Of course my opinion is worth what you paid for it, and if you have better info, I would enjoy learning about it! (no sarcasm intended)
I guess it depends on the management style. When I managed projects (yes, I am one of *them*), I saw my role as interfacing between the customer and my staff to be sure expectations and requirements were clear, ensuring we had the resources we need, and occasionally stoping someone from "making it better" when it already works fine because often making one thing better broke something else.
Sales people, OTOH, should be locked in a room onsite and allowed to party all day; but every time the customer says "
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Most of my immediate managers have been technically competant as well, so them coming into technical meetings and wantiong to review technical details was fine by me and appreciated, I was talking about people with no technical expertise who wanted to come in, review the potential product, then have to have everything explained to them but... Ya know, 15 years of experience (0r 20 or 30, and a degree in a technical field) can almost never be replaced by a BA, followed by an MBA and no experience other than
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RIP Twitter, now X is going down the drain both in terms of quality and number of active users.
However... Twitter used to have all of these teams working on things that were not approved then the senior managers would fight about what was or was not going live. A lot of work went towards things that never got released or were released years after they were done. It was due to Jack's management style which by all accounts was pretty bad. Now that hes gone and they have a dictator with a massive ego and is w