Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]

Re:Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] by samspenc on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:41PM (#36869108)

I just added this comment on another reply further down below, copy-pasting here, the numbers compare last year Q2 to this year Q2, if you compare it to last quarter they are actually down in count.

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I thought this was interesting, so I compared it against their count last quarter (instead of last year) and they are indeed down.

  - In Q4 2022 [1] they had 190,234 employees.
  - In Q1 2023 [2] they had 190,711 employees.
  - This quarter Q2, they have 181,798 employees.

So they are down almost 9000 employees from last quarter, close to their 12K layoff number.

[1] https://abc.xyz/assets/c4/d3/fb142c0f4a78a278d96ad5597ad9/20... [2] https://abc.xyz/assets/a7/5b/9e5ae0364b12b4c883f3cf748226/go...

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Re:Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] by bsimpson on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:55PM (#36869365)

The layoffs aren't finished.

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Re:Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] by majormajor on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:18PM (#36869752)

This is interesting because it then is such a sharp U-turn since last Q2. "Keep hiring!" -> "Layoffs!" with very little pause in between?

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Re:Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] by samspenc on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:19PM (#36869762)

Yeah pretty much all major tech companies did this exact same U-turn.

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Re:Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] by majormajor on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:06PM (#36870970)

Yeah, but seeing the sharpness - compared to "ok let's slow down... ok ... shoot, we probably actually need to trim some headcount" - really highlights the follow-the-herd, here's-a-handy-excuse, done-for-PR nature of them vs actually responding to revenue trends or such.

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