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Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by marcinzm on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:47AM (#32318399)
If someone thinks Google can even scratch any of those issues in two weeks then you've really been drinking some Google kool aid.

edit: Increased clarity.

Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:51AM (#32318448)
Yeah, nah, obv I don't think that. I quit.

But maybe you mean a hypothetical "you" of other people still working there. Obviously it's a mix, but I suspect on the whole most people are smart enough to see that these kinds of things are unlikely to accomplish much.

But they're also likely happy that upper management is finally acknowledging these dysfunctions.

Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by acomjean on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:59AM (#32318552)
When I was just a coder at a fortune 500 company, I was voluntold to be on a "Morale Committee". Not much came of it (one meeting with about 20 of us, they had an ice cream social, because people like ice cream and the work environment was very siloed people weren't interacting). It didn't do much, but employees took notice that management realized morale was low. The round of layoffs that came soon after overshadowed that however.