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matastas t1_j5dro6q wrote

Google hired, like, 26K people last year. Before their layoff, they had 170K employees. They laid off about 6% of their workforce.

I have all the sympathy in the world for the folks who got clipped: it's an awful experience, with no sugar-coating possible. But the media is blowing this out of proportion.

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