Pros
Perks, people, offices, compensation, brand.
Cons
Follow the #googlelayoffs on LinkedIn and you find the Google you heard about is not the same company anymore. The layoff on 1/20/2023 hit vulnerable populations like pregnant women, pregnant woman expecting twins, women that have just gave birth, people that just left for medical leave, people that have just returned from medical leave, people in medical leave, people with hb1 visas who will need to go back to their country, among others. The company acted under the at-will law but the trade off of bumping up shareholder value at the expense of vulnerable people is something I now consider the purest corporate evil I’ve ever seen. Cutting off the corporate access in the middle of the night was demoralizing, degrading and demeaning like all 12K people were criminals. I understand the risk mitigation to avoid possible actions of disgruntled employees but come on, there were so many options they could implement and yet they preferred the evil way.
