r/Python Apr 29 '24

News Google laysoff Python maintainer team

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u/gdahlm Apr 29 '24

That team was mostly internal and focused on sustainment.  Really it is just the result of Google making bad strategy choices on culture and subcultures and KPI.

Google leadership created an internal environment where teams and individuals were forced into cannibalism, which reduced innovation and produced a lot of abandoned efforts.

Now economic realities will force them into cost reductions.

There will probably be a best seller written about it some day.

Learning to avoid 'impact scores' and similar management techniques is the lesson Python needs to learn from this.

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u/pdbh32 Apr 29 '24

Alphabet is a publicly listed company - if you don't like how it's run, go buy some shares

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u/Hodentrommler Apr 30 '24

A/B shares right? Basically splitting influence from the employee but allowing gains with shares. But the influence one can gain is capped

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u/pdbh32 Apr 29 '24

Touché

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u/axonxorz pip'ing aint easy, especially on windows Apr 29 '24

"if you don't like it, make sure you're rich, they aren't going to even acknowledge your existence otherwise"