31/01/2023 Google engineer who was laid off while on mental health leave says she ‘silently mourned’ after receiving her severance email at 2 a.m.Ali Neil, a Google engineer, said she called a friend, drank some whiskey, and "silently mourned" the layoff until the morning.
31/01/2023 A Google recruiter on maternity leave said she found out she was laid off while feeding her 3-week-old baby at 4:30 a.m.Google is laying off 12,000 staff, including some partway through their paid parental and carers’ leave.
Tecnología 30/01/2023 Google desarrolló un modelo de IA que crea música a partir de texto, pero no lo lanzará prontoGoogle está intensificando sus esfuerzos en IA tras emitir un «código rojo» por la explosión en popularidad de ChatGPT.
30/01/2023 A former Google exec is suing the company, saying a coworker sexually harassed and drunkenly berated himRyan Olohan filed a complaint against Google and his coworker alleging sexual harassment, gender and race discrimination, and retaliation.
30/01/2023 Google’s head of mental health and wellbeing was among the 12,000 workers laid off by the tech giantKristin Maczko, who had been at Google for 15 years, said "many people" in its mental health and wellbeing team had been laid off.
30/01/2023 A software engineer at Google went on bereavement leave after his mom died from cancer. 4 days after returning to work, he found out he was part of the mass layoffs.The software engineer, who had just returned from grieving his mother, said the retrenchment was like a "slap in the face."
29/01/2023 Google just developed an AI model that creates music from text prompts — but the company won’t be releasing it anytime soonAs the AI race heats up, the tech giant is looking to compete after issuing a "code red" in response to the meteoric rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
29/01/2023 An ex-Googler says he discovered he’d been laid off while feeding his newborn daughter at 2 a.m.Nicholas Dufau, a former lawyer at Google, said he felt "acutely expendable" after losing his job days after becoming a father for the first time.
29/01/2023 A laid-off Googler says colleagues should ‘find perspective’ about the recent layoffs: ‘No one died. Seriously’"I see a lot of ‘deeply saddened’ and all that stuff," former Googler Mallika Iyer wrote in a LinkedIn post, adding: "No one died. Seriously."
28/01/2023 Map shows each country’s DREAM job based on Google search data — and reveals most people wish they were pilotsThe Google data used is based on searches that ask how to pursue a career path as a way to only include those who are dreaming of a certain job.
28/01/2023 A Google engineer said a ‘beautiful day’ was overshadowed after she found out she’d been laid off hours before giving birth to her second childSoftware engineer Natasha Nesiba found out she’d been laid off from Google shortly before going into labor. She’d worked at Google since 2016.
27/01/2023 A Googler says he was laid off while caring for his terminally-ill mom — but would take another job at the company ‘in a heartbeat’Paul Baker, a video producer, told Insider he was partway through a month of paid carers’ leave when his termination email arrived.
26/01/2023 A TikToker said he won an award for being the first to Google an obscure phrase. The elaborate hoax reached millions and sparked a copycat trend.TikToker @legbootlegit gained millions of views with a series of videos claiming Google sent him an award for being the first to Google a phrase.
Tecnología 26/01/2023 El gran temor de Google es que la IA pierda el control; ahora que salió ChatGPT, ya es muy tardeLos ejecutivos de Google advierten contra la liberación irresponsable de herramientas de inteligencia artificial.
26/01/2023 A Google employee of 11 years says he and his wife stared at each other in ‘disbelief’ when they realized they’d both been laid off by the companyAshish Kalsi wrote on LinkedIn he has a two-year-old daughter and was working at Google on an immigrant visa: "The dreaded H-1B countdown has begun."
25/01/2023 A woman who worked for Google for almost a decade says she was in the hospital bed holding her hours-old newborn when she learned she was part of the ‘golden12K’ of laid-off GooglersThe woman, who works in the product, sales and strategy ops, has not yet heard from Google about the status of her maternity leave benefits.
25/01/2023 Google let go of 31 massage therapists at its California offices amid mass layoffsThe decision to let go of its massage therapists comes as Google eliminates office perks as part of its cost-cutting measures.
25/01/2023 Googlers prize ‘psychological safety,’ but it won’t save them from layoffsThe term has been foundational to the company’s management approach and success — but it doesn’t mean job stability.
25/01/2023 Microsoft’s $10 billion bet on ChatGPT’s maker gives it a powerful new weapon in the cloud wars with Amazon and GoogleThe tech firm reported a gloomy outlook for its cloud unit on Tuesday, but a timely bet on OpenAI could boost its fight against AWS and Google.
25/01/2023 A Google engineer of 8 years says his ‘spidey-senses’ detected incoming layoffs — and felt ‘isolated’ when his ‘faceless’ severance email arrivedZac Bowling told Insider he felt "all alone all of a sudden" when his severance email landed: "You don’t even get to say goodbye."
25/01/2023 A laid-off Google employee says she went to Disneyland to ‘eat her feelings’ after being locked out of her company systemsTikToker Nicole Tsai found out that she was one of the 12,000 Google employees caught in the latest slew of tech layoffs
25/01/2023 Some Google employees didn’t realize they were laid off until their badges wouldn’t let them into the officeGoogle notified 12,000 employees of their fate by overnight email, but those that didn’t check their inbox got a tough surprise when swiping in.
24/01/2023 I just got laid off from Google by email. The ‘cold’ and ‘inhuman’ way they treated employees is why I’m not going to reapply.On Friday, Google sent a memo to 12,000 employees informing them that their roles were eliminated. It follows layoffs from other big tech companies.
