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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 4 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes

Unfortunately that's not the case. Those who have been laid off are those paid high salaries to build up the foundation. Now that the foundation is already there, they future work won't be as complex as before and need less training. So why would they still pay the very high salaries? They'll just get rid of the used-to-be-important programmers and hire the can-be-hired-for-a-lot-less programmers from India. It's sad, but that's the reality.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

Those who have been laid off are those ... to build up the foundation. Now that the foundation is already there, the future work won't be as complex as before and need less training.

Small-to-medium companies see you at least as investment. So this is where i work.