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Re:Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant –...
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:19AM (#38949290)
> The previous layoff was all across the board and likely trimming lower rated engineers across the whole company.
This is simply untrue for the Jan 2023 Alphabet layoffs. Entire orgs (>200 FTE) were let go regardless of individual performance.
Re:Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:27AM (#36999027)
Interesting to see that robot as the cover image when the team that built them was shutdown earlier this year: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-layoffs-hit-trash-sorti...
Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at Intelligen...
on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:40PM (#36963462)
*qualified people who are willing to accept the GS pay band
Re:X, the moonshot factory
on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:26PM (#36850494)
Everyday Robots was recently kneecapped: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-layoffs-hit-trash-sorti...
Re:Don't Skip 1 on 1s
on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:14AM (#36489461)
I had a manager religiously protect 1:1s who canceled (without rescheduling) one week.
I immediately assumed I was being laid off, but I was only partly correct - that Friday the whole program was eliminated.
Re:Robotic deep RL at scale: Sorting waste and recyclables with a flee...
on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:43PM (#35563168)
> I could be wrong though.
Yep, you are.
A small percentage of the EDR team (and mainly contractors) were absorbed by Google Research - the vast majority of the team was let go.