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Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by jarjoura on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:18PM (#34621606)
One positive is that all these high-level laid off engineers are now going disperse into all kinds of smaller companies and inject life back into the startup world.

For the last decade Google, Meta, et.al. have been sucking the power out of innovative ideas and mostly killing them off if they didn't deliver at the scale they operated at.

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Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by mensetmanusman on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:37PM (#34622131)
This is actually a known and documented Bright-side of an unfortunate situation. There are usually silver linings.

It’s actually one of the reasons economists point to the US economy being much more vibrant than in Europe for example.

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Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by paganel on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:04AM (#34624512)
Remains to be seen if those people haven't been "transformed" too much during their FAANG stay. You can't build a successful startup while expecting to have Google's infrastructure and best-work practices from the very beginning.
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