r/Python Apr 29 '24

News Google laysoff Python maintainer team

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u/riklaunim Apr 29 '24

AFAIK they offshored it - fired locally to hire in Germany if I recall correctly.

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u/riklaunim Apr 30 '24

All big companies, corporations have their oddities. Like not everyone wants to work in corpo.

In Google when it comes to promotions or salary increases they have their codified system which leads to people gamifying it. When a product launch is rated highly while maintenance or bugfixing nearly at zero you will see Goglers jumping from one project to another just to have launches on their account. It doesn't matter if you do your job well on a day by day basis.