Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year
by Alex Heath from The Verge - All Posts on (#6HYAZ)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google has laid off over a thousand employees across various departments since January 10th. CEO Sundar Pichai's message is to brace for more cuts.
We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year," Pichai told all Google employees on Wednesday in an internal memo that was shared with me. The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices."
So far, those tough choices" have included layoffs and reorganizations in Google's hardware, ad sales, search, shopping, maps, policy, core engineering, and YouTube teams.
These role eliminations are not at the scale of last year's reductions, and will not touch every team," Pichai wrote in his memo - a reference to when G...