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DESPITE SOARING PROFITS, GOOGLE LAYS OFF MORE STAFF, INCLUDING PYTHON AND
FLUTTER ENGINEERS


THE PYTHON, DART, AND FLUTTER TEAMS HAVE BEEN IMPACTED

By Rob Thubron Today 8:59 AM 11 comments
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.
TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust.

What just happened? Google, whose parent Alphabet recently reported a 57%
quarterly profit increase to $23.7 billion, has implemented yet another round of
layoffs. The latest job cuts are mostly impacting the company's Python team, as
well as engineers from the Flutter and Dart departments.

According to a Reddit post by Kevin Moore, a Google Product Manager for Flutter
and Dart (via The Reg), "The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers
above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that.)"

"Lots of good folks got bad news and lots of great projects lost people. Flutter
and Dart were not affected any more or less [than] others. It was a tough day...
tough week."

Flutter, an open-source UI toolkit that allows developers to build
cross-platform apps, was making big strides last year, but laying off members of
the team has raised questions over whether it will join Google's very packed
product graveyard.

The Python team, meanwhile, has also been reduced (aka, laid off). According to
this Mastodon post, those being let go were first asked to onboard their
replacements who will take on the same roles at a Munich-based team.

Alphabet laid off more employees than most tech giants last year, with more than
12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, being cut. As with other companies,
the reductions have continued into 2024; hundreds of employees in Google's voice
assistant, hardware, and engineering teams were put out of work in January as
the company looked to cut costs further and put more focus (and money) on
artificial intelligence.

The latest reductions aren't a huge surprise. Just a week after the January
layoffs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned staff to brace for more cuts as it
looked to meet ambitious goals and invest in big priorities in 2024, something
that would require "tough choices," which is corpo-speak for firing people.

Most of the layoffs from early last year were the result of overhiring during
the pandemic when companies increased their headcounts to cope with the
increased demand for their services. While the continuing economic climate has
contributed to the cuts this year, massive investments in AI is playing a big
part in the job losses, as Google itself admits.

In a statement to The Reg, Google said, "we're responsibly investing in our
company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead. To best
position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into
2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work
better, remove layers and align their resources to their biggest product
priorities."

"Through this, we're simplifying our structures to give employees more
opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our
biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers." That's
referring to employees who still have a job, presumably.

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