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A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled

A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled

Thousands of US-based Google employees woke up to an email on January 20 saying they’d been laid off.Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo A Google engineer said survivors of the recent mass layoffs cried in meetings the day of the cull. Two engineers told Insider some remaining staff were worried about further job cuts. Google is now “just another big company,” one said. Some Google employees who survived the recent cull of around 12,000 staff cried during meetings the day layoffs were announced, a serving… Source link

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A Google engineer of 8 years says his ‘spidey-senses’ detected incoming layoffs — and felt ‘isolated’ when his ‘faceless’ severance email arrived

A Google engineer of 8 years says his ‘spidey-senses’ detected incoming layoffs — and felt ‘isolated’ when his ‘faceless’ severance email arrived

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs at Google on Friday.AP A laid-off Google engineer said his “spidey-senses” detected incoming job cuts at the company. Zac Bowling told Insider he’d been laid off before and was familiar with the build-up. He said Google’s severance email was “cold,” “faceless,” and made him feel “isolated.” A laid-off Google engineer said his “spidey-senses” detected incoming job cuts at the company — and the “cold” severance email that followed left him… Source link

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Laid-off Google engineer says he was in ‘a state of shock’ after being locked out of work emails at 3 a.m.

Laid-off Google engineer says he was in ‘a state of shock’ after being locked out of work emails at 3 a.m.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs on Friday.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. He hoped Google’s layoffs were a “wake-up call” to other tech workers who were still in their jobs. A Google engineer who was recently laid off said he was locked out of the company’s online system 20 minutes after finding out… Source link

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An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google said ‘faceless’ tech giants see staff as ‘100% disposable’

An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google said ‘faceless’ tech giants see staff as ‘100% disposable’

A Google engineer laid off after 16 years said the tech giant sees staff as “100% disposable.”Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images An engineering manager laid off by Google said the tech giant sees staff as “100% disposable.” Justin Moore said on LinkedIn that he was laid off through an automatic account deactivation. Moore was one of 12,000 people affected by the company’s mass layoff last week. A Google engineer laid off after over 16 and a half years at the firm said the tech giant views… Source link

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Google mistakenly sent an engineer almost $250,000

Google mistakenly sent an engineer almost $250,000

CNN  —  A man mistakenly received a payment of almost $250,000 from Google – even though he hadn’t done any work for the company. Sam Curry, a staff security engineer at cryptocurrency company Yuga Labs, described the baffling payment on his verified Twitter account on Tuesday. “It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard… Source link

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Google’s AI chatbot—sentient and similar to ‘a kid that happened to know physics’—is also racist and biased, fired engineer contends

Google’s AI chatbot—sentient and similar to ‘a kid that happened to know physics’—is also racist and biased, fired engineer contends

A former Google engineer fired by the company after going public with concerns that its artificial intelligence chatbot is sentient isn’t concerned about convincing the public. He does, however, want others to know that the chatbot holds discriminatory views against those of some races and religions, he recently told Business Insider. “The kinds of problems these AI pose, the people building them are blind to them,” Blake Lemoine said in an interview published Sunday, blaming… Source link

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As an engineer, here’s how I look at the idea of pumping water from Mississippi to the West

As an engineer, here’s how I look at the idea of pumping water from Mississippi to the West

A bulldozer clears a descent path to move equipment down to the level for drilling operations as workmen start excavations for building the Channel Tunnel outside Calais, France, Nov. 17, 1973 At an age when my classmates were fascinated with dinosaurs or playing Cowboys and Indians, I picked up a book titled “Engineers’ Dreams” and was hooked. Thus began a lifelong interest in projects associated with engineering concepts about improving our world. The author, Willy Ley, sketched the… Source link

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