Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
read Phil Spencer's note to staff Bloomberg : Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs IGN : Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Conf...
Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other executive Search team changes
and she's all in on AI Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Liz Reid Promoted To Head Of Google Search Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Google Changes: Liz Reid New Head Of Search, Pandu Nayak Ste...
Reflecting on 18 years at Google: early Google had a vision, but its culture has eroded, morale is at an all-time low, and healing requires changes at the top
1. Talks about really believing “don't be evil” especially as a contrast to Microsoft. As a Microsoftie at the time, it was really annoying to see a company take a moral stand that selling proprietar...
Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default
& maybe even 5 — this year https://www.cnbc.com/... Patricia Aas / @pati_gallardo : If a Google engineer costs 125K (which iiuc is lowballing it) then they cost about a dollar a minute. Making someone...
Memo: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the site for the last nine years, plans to step down and will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant Neal Mohan
One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company. Tweets: @rustybrick , @eringriffith , and @pkafka Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Wow ...
Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic”
More than 1600 employees will be impacted — 50% of Yahoo's ad tech unit being cut https://www.axios.com/... Matt Barash / @mjbarash : The buy side (DSP) play probably wasn't on a ton of bingo cards. T...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...