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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by btown on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:19PM (#22331844)
Why would Google even take the risk of this PR, vs. just moving these people into R&D inside the Cloud group? I feel like this clickbait headline will frighten markets more than the bloated headcount expense.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by shokobo on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:17PM (#22332285)
You're assuming it's R&D folks, I've seen one person tweet that it happened to them and they were in marketing.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by qeqeqeqe on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:21PM (#22331862)
Amazon lets people go regularly, I don't get what the issue is.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by seneca on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:26PM (#22331894)
Amazon doesn't have a reputation for shutting down projects, and no one has any reason to doubt Amazon's long term ability to execute on a cloud platform.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by austhrow743 on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:24PM (#22331883)
Google has recently had a leak about potentially cutting cloud. Afaik Amazon hasn't.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by rvnx on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:46PM (#22332487)
But isn't Cloud their biggest growth opportunity ?
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