#Laid off by Google

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wind cove
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I found out this morning. No email. I just checked my corp phone and found that I had lost access. According to two ex-Googlers on my team who left in late September / October, half of our team was laid off. I didn't apply to any jobs yet, just took a mental health day.

latent briar
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damn im so sorry

hybrid kindle
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Dang that sucks wish u luck finding the next job

wind cove
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According to my LinkedIn feed, it looks like my org/team was one of the hardest hit, with more than 50% of engineers laid off

hybrid kindle
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weird they can't at least just tell you with a phone call that your getting laid off

wind cove
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I'm on payroll until March 20. Is my official end date the day I got laid off (Jan 20) or March 20? For resume and unemployment compensation purposes.

latent briar
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wind cove
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Half an hour to answer questions, tell them what their severance package is, etc.

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If an HR man-hour costs $50 the whole operation would've cost $300k

hybrid kindle
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ok maybe they should send an email instead

latent briar
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and thats assuming the HR folks dont get laid off too

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economy would recover by the time they got through everyone haha

hallow oracle
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Damn sorry to hear, I've seen some people get emails early in the morning and didn't check it because who checks their emails unless they are at work, and in the midst of trying to clock in their ID doesn't work

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It's unfortunate how they went about this

wind cove
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Not only that, I turned down several offers in 2021 to join Google

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Really regretting this now

rancid mica
# latent briar i would say march

i would say Jan tbh based on limited info here. def check the paperwork in detail – is that severance compensation? you can receive severance long after official last day, afaik

wind cove
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Official last day will be March 20, severance will last until July 31

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The March 20 date is because of the 60 days required by WARN Act

leaden bane
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@wind cove Hey lmk if you want someone to talk too or if you wanna prep together

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Feeling sucks but you at least have the google name to your resume

wind cove
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Google should feel lucky to have my name on their payroll

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I had a ton of other offers and they were lucky to be even chosen

leaden bane
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Once you update the LinkedIn you’ll get tons of people coming at you

wind cove
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Lol, a startup recruiter called me at 8am today to ask if I got laid off

leaden bane
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Lmao

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Yeah. There still jobs out there maybe not high comp but the base is decent

wind cove
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I was talking to 2 recruiters on LinkedIn

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DE Shaw says they can offer 300-400k

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Hudson River Trading says they can offer 200-800k+ and I was like "that's a wide range"

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Realistically it will be on the lower end, probably 200 to mid 400's

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Well actually I doubt HRT would have the audacity to offer 200

leaden bane
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damn wtf trading firms

wind cove
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@rancid mica I had 6 jobs, 2 were internships, 1 was part time, and 3 were full time

rancid mica
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over what period of time?

wind cove
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3.5 years

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Almost 4 years

wind cove
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I'd much rather be a prof making this much than at a hedge fund honestly

wind cove
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My parents call me every day to yell at me for getting laid off

hybrid kindle
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Can u just cut off contact with them? You seem old enough and financially stable to do it.
Maybe work something out with them tell them your searching for a job

latent briar
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well

leaden bane
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Is that a Swiss German thing?

latent briar
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thats a pretty big decision

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and it may not be easy for them to just “cut them off” , if they even want to do that

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not rlly a good suggestion there

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i would suggest just kinda tellin em to back off if u can tho🤷🏾‍♀️ parents can stink sometimes and tryna standup to them can be hard

hybrid kindle
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idk he seems to have a lot of bad experiences with his parents based off what he said, them being "tiger parents"

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and like his whole mindset is just based around what his parents feel. They seem really stressful.

latent briar
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that may make it even more hard to just “cut them off”

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not saying the idea of cutting them is like the worst ever but i guess the way it was phrased as if it was as easy as 123 was maybe where i had the issue

hybrid kindle
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ya he shouldn't jump to that

latent briar
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i will say, if OP feels like they are able to cut them off and thats something they feel like its time to do, then go for it 🤷🏾‍♀️ sometimes stuff like that is necessary for the child AND for the parents

hybrid kindle
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besides he has severance for 6 months and his job doesn't end till March. IDK why they would call him up daily, it's not like he's broke yet

latent briar
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parents can be weird🤷🏾‍♀️ my mom got an attitude with me when i got an internship at amazon and not microsoft so idk. Just weird situations all around. Hopefully OP can keep his sanity through all of this, its tough times

hallow oracle
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My mom got an attitude and was upset when I got an internship that resulted in me relocating for the summer. At the end of day sometimes it's best to just zone out parents and focus more on you when you realize they are only adding to the problem. Sometimes communicating doesn't work unless they truly see that what they have done is affecting you

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I most likely wouldn't pick up the phone unless it's very important and communicate that to them, it's an unfortunate situation and no one is to blame.

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Sometimes I see that parents really push children for stable jobs so stuff like this happens, or example you spoke on being a professor, probably would be very stable especially after tenure

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my mom pushes that stable thing on me all the time, and she always bring up people at work in tech thats been jobless

leaden bane
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yeah I told my mom I got a new job and I was moving to the Bay. She told me not to move out yet because they might fire me.

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she was looking out for my best interest but it might had not be communicated very well.

latent briar
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hopefully economy can recover soon

coral pond
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My parents wanted me to move out. Moved out before I even got a job lmao

wind cove
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I'm moving in with my parents on Feb 1

wind cove
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I got fired from an internship in 2012 and had to move in with my parents. They screamed for several hours a day. I put up with it for 3 months before trying to kms.

hybrid kindle
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is that u

hallow oracle
hybrid kindle
leaden bane
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dude he left the server

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:kek

hybrid kindle
leaden bane
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ngl, he got laid off google but moving back in with his parents right after?

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i'd start burning my saving to save my mental health

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and my parents weren't even remotely bad.

hybrid kindle
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He said he had a 1.8 million loan in some other comment it’s weird

leaden bane
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wut

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WUT

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WUT

hybrid kindle
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I think it’s a lot of lying mixed in with some truth

leaden bane
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1.8M loan.

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like I have a 600k loan but that's a mortgage.

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like did he buy a 2.1M house

hybrid kindle
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That’s also him on unedit

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He has a lot of varying stories

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He says he has half a mil saved tho

leaden bane
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yeah okay, dude just seems like he's full of it

hallow oracle
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Oh wow

hallow oracle
latent briar
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i will say, even if you believe someone is lying or whatever the case, the way this was went about wasn’t really professional and goes against the spirit of the server. And even still now you all are still talking about the person “behind their back” and what not. If that person came back, Im sure this wouldnt be the environment that would make him want to stay.

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or anyone else who may come across this thread see you all talking and gossiping and what not