New Member Junior Member25 postsJoined: Jan 2011Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other DivisionsThe company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone. Google said that most of the hardware cuts affected a team working on augmented reality, technology that combines the real world with a digital overlay. Google confirmed the Assistant cuts, earlier reported by Semafor, and the hardware layoffs, earlier reported by the blog 9to5Google. “We’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” a Google spokesman said in a statement. In January 2023, Google shed 6 percent of its work force, or 12,000 people, in the largest layoffs that the company has conducted.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2024 17:51 UTC