Google layoffs not based on performance: Sacked Indian employee

[Anta Assamey]

Even as tech giant Google continues to cut down staff, a sacked Indian employee stated that the layoffs are not based on performance.

In a LinkedIn post, Google India employee Animesh Swain stated that pink slips were also served to employees with highest ratings. The list also has names who were recently awarded promotions.

"The people who managed to stay (including me) are not necessarily better than those laid off," Swain was quoted as saying in the post.

Another employee Gurugram-based Aakriti Walia, working as a Google Cloud programme manager, was laid off just 10 minutes before a meeting.

"The 'access denied' message on my system left me numb as I was preparing for my meeting just 10 mins away," Walia posted on the professional networking platform.

"As I celebrated my 5-year Googleversary just a few days ago, little did I know it would be my last," she said.

Earlier, Jennifer Vaden Barth, a creative Strategist at Google, said that the "layoff impacted very talented and highly rated professionals".

Barth, who had worked at Google for 15 years said that "layoffs hit women particularly hard, especially women over 40".

Meanwhile, in a bid to further cut costs, Google has even asked employees who return to work to share their work desks with a "partner" to maximise office space.

Google India has recently terminated more than 400 employees. The layoffs at Google India were part of the larger job cuts that impacted 12,000 workers globally at the company.

Denying that the layoffs were done "randomly", Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said earlier that he is "deeply sorry" for reducing the workforce.

In an email to employees, Pichai said he takes "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here".

The layoffs at Google's parent company were expected amid the deepening funding winter that has hit companies of all sizes in the global slowdown and recession fears.

[Neekendukuu]

[hyperbole]

Top performing = high salaries. Sometimes they look at those numbers and think of rehiring from the market for the same position. You don’t a 500k project manager but the same job can be done by a guy for $300k

[MRI]

Evarannaru idantha performance based ani?? mottam magic of numbers.. high salaries,  performance, politics.. anni kalasina kalayika.. corporations su cheekutu malli dharmam antarenti?? hahahaha

[veerigadu]

I feel for that employee. But Eee bad mouthing endukuuu…It’s capitalism at the end of the day. All enterprises have their own calculations. These decisions are influenced by multi factorial aspects for the most part.
 

It may not be just based on performance inadequacies. 
 

To sum it up, they have an absolute prerogative of who they can fire and hire. 

[Vaampire]

13 minutes ago, hyperbole said:

Top performing = high salaries. Sometimes they look at those numbers and think of rehiring from the market for the same position. You don’t a 500k project manager but the same job can be done by a guy for $300k

Top performance may not always imply high salaries.

actually for the first 4 years, initial grants contribute a lot for TC. I mean how well the interview went and counter offers. 
 

i agree for the other part

[veerigadu]

10 minutes ago, MRI said:

Evarannaru idantha performance based ani?? mottam magic of numbers.. high salaries,  performance, politics.. anni kalasina kalayika.. corporations su cheekutu malli dharmam antarenti?? hahahaha

There is an old saying. I heard it from streets.
 

“Companies expect loyalty from you, but you can’t expect the same in return ani”. 

It’s so very true and many people don’t really understand the depth of it. Especially when they work for that company for too many years.  

[MRI]

19 minutes ago, veerigadu said:

There is an old saying. I heard it from streets.
 

“Companies expect loyalty from you, but you can’t expect the same in return ani”. 

It’s so very true and many people don’t really understand the depth of it. Especially when they work for that company for too many years.  

loyalty? lol.. ee padam vaadutunna vaallu edagaali pardhu.. we all have to start treating corporations as prostitutes.. then everything sets in place.. need to embrace your rights than bowing to them.. hahahaha

[Gorantlamdhav]

1 hour ago, Anta Assamey said:

Even as tech giant Google continues to cut down staff, a sacked Indian employee stated that the layoffs are not based on performance.

In a LinkedIn post, Google India employee Animesh Swain stated that pink slips were also served to employees with highest ratings. The list also has names who were recently awarded promotions.

"The people who managed to stay (including me) are not necessarily better than those laid off," Swain was quoted as saying in the post.

Another employee Gurugram-based Aakriti Walia, working as a Google Cloud programme manager, was laid off just 10 minutes before a meeting.

"The 'access denied' message on my system left me numb as I was preparing for my meeting just 10 mins away," Walia posted on the professional networking platform.

"As I celebrated my 5-year Googleversary just a few days ago, little did I know it would be my last," she said.

Earlier, Jennifer Vaden Barth, a creative Strategist at Google, said that the "layoff impacted very talented and highly rated professionals".

Barth, who had worked at Google for 15 years said that "layoffs hit women particularly hard, especially women over 40".

Meanwhile, in a bid to further cut costs, Google has even asked employees who return to work to share their work desks with a "partner" to maximise office space.

Google India has recently terminated more than 400 employees. The layoffs at Google India were part of the larger job cuts that impacted 12,000 workers globally at the company.

Denying that the layoffs were done "randomly", Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said earlier that he is "deeply sorry" for reducing the workforce.

In an email to employees, Pichai said he takes "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here".

The layoffs at Google's parent company were expected amid the deepening funding winter that has hit companies of all sizes in the global slowdown and recession fears.

Office lo nenu bhi same anukutunna , na coleague kuda same. Evaro okaru lestaru

[Sucker]

Lottery theesthe ee name vachindemo le. Aina adhemanna life long job istha ani raasichada. No one cares about you except our family. Konchem pani thagginchi family ki ivvandi porollu prime age age la.