Google cut employees across several of its units this week, including Cloud, ad sales, and Trust & Safety.
Staff inside Google have circulated an internal crowdsourced Google doc tracking company job cuts, sourced from internal memos and employee testimonies.
Google has been making rolling cuts inside the company over the past few months, employees say, though many of these cuts have been much smaller and surgical than the large cuts by Google in January 2023. Across the tech industry, several companies like Amazon and Microsoft have also been making recurring, smaller reductions since conducting sweeping layoffs a few years ago.
A Google spokesperson said fewer than 200 roles were impacted across the teams mentioned in the document.
“Our teams have continued to make changes to operate more efficiently, remove layers, and ensure they are set up for long-term success,” the spokesperson said. “This work is ongoing as we continue to invest in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead.”
The crowdsourced document, reviewed by Business Insider, shows that several teams were informed of cuts this week, including an unknown number of employees in Google’s ad sales team for the Americas Large Customer Sales (LCS) group, which serves the company’s bigger advertising clients. The document cites a memo announcing the cuts were made to streamline and reduce layers.
The document also said that at least 25 people were cut from the Bard EngProd team, an engineering team for the Bard AI product, which has since been rebranded to Gemini. The document also said an unknown number of employees were cut from the Trust & Safety group, with some jobs being “redeployed,” according to a cited memo. A spokesperson said the company intended to grow the Trust and Safety team despite the latest eliminations.
For most teams, the specific number of employees cut is unknown.
Several teams within Google’s Cloud unit also had job cuts this week, including the Threat Intelligence Group, Scaled Customer Engineering, Google Cloud Platform Support, Go-To-Market, and Looker groups, the document said. Bloomberg earlier reported some details on the Cloud layoffs.
Within Google, employees have often crowdsourced documents to share information, such as which teams got hit with job cuts or how much money employees of different levels and locations make. Employees at other tech companies like Amazon have also circulated similar crowdsourced documents to share information about job cuts.
Last month Google offered voluntary buyouts for staff in its Pixel hardware and Android division, BI previously reported.
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