Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
  • Chemical WonkaEnglish
    29•1 month ago

    The intellect and skills of these workers would be very useful in the GrapheneOS development team

  • @atrielienzEnglish
    14•1 month ago

    So they can ax the projects and then blame it on staffing?

    • @Windex007English
      16•1 month ago

      No, so they can restaff w/ H1B

      • @atrielienzEnglish
        9•1 month ago

        Much more likely. I should have added the /s. This was a dig at their “graveyard” of apps and services.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 month ago

      Generally I’d agree, but in this case they have excess staffing because they merged projects.

      Often this is in middle management.

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    11•1 month ago

    If the alternative is being laid off, this is a decent approach imo. A lot of people probably are feeling burned out or ready to leave. The severance is probably going to be generous, probably a years salary and some stock. If you were on the fence, it would probably be tempting. Plus then only the people interested in leaving anyway leave, those passionate stay.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•1 month ago

      Or, the best leave as it’s free money and they already have an inbox full of headhunters.

      It’s better than redundancy without choice but it’s bad for Android and pixel.