Google cut manager and VP roles by 10% in its efficiency push, CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal meeting
Google cut manager and VP roles by 10% in its efficiency push, CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal meeting
Google has been on an efficiency push and chopping down senior manager positions, CEO Sundar Pichai told his staff on Wednesday.
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- Sundar Pichai said Google cut manager, director, and VP roles by 10% as part of an efficiency drive.
- Google has sought to boost efficiency by reducing layers and reorganizing teams.
- The company has been facing challenges from OpenAI and other AI rivals.
This seems pretty typical. Feels like Leaders only have one lever to pull. Things are going badly? Letâs ReOrg, thatâll fix it.
Instead of doing the smart thing and identifying smart individuals within the company and putting them all in group letting them solution.
My guess is the outcome of this will be google having an unofficial marriage with gambling companies as they are the last customers to pay for Ads and see a big positive result
ooooh, cut the CEO roles by 10% next
10% of 300k. Ooooo. But not the bonus, of course, which is the real salary.
Starting from the top.
I wonder what the process was for choosing specifically 10%. Why not 8.7%? Or 13.9%? Surely an efficiency drive would have some sort of structured/analytical approach to it?
Surely an efficiency drive would have some sort of structured/analytical approach to it?
LOL
Some nerd probably wanted to be able to say they literally decimated their management teams
After an engineer is there long enough, theyâre likely to become a manager. Theyâre way more expensive to keep around. Google wants to lay them off and churn them for college grads. Looks better for PR if they say itâs an âefficiency pushâ rather than âwe donât like to retain employees because itâs expensive.â So this was definitely an arbitrary number
To be fair, it's totally possible that they just have too much management. Then you get into a case where a very large portion of everyone's job is endlessly trying to keep in any with various management and you end up with too many managers competing for not enough work which makes the environment more political
This isn't as true in tech companies as it was in traditional companies years ago. Most high level engineers take an individual contributor role that allow you to be promoted without becoming a manager. At Google it's called a staff role. At Amazon it's a principal role.
Sounds good to investors
Or even 200% ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Imagine they did this that way: âhey Bob, Iâve some good and some bad news for you. The good one fist: you got promoted to Manager/VP/Whatever. The bad one: in order to make the company more efficient weâre letting go of some higher staff. So, youâre fired. Pack your stuff and fuck off until 12pm, manager Bob!â
I mean I'd still put VP on my resume if I'm him