- Google cut jobs on several teams this week, per an internal crowdsourced document.
- Staffers in Cloud, ads, and Trust & Safety were among those affected.
- Employees say the company has been making small cuts over the past few months.
Google this week cut employees across several of its units, including Cloud, ad sales, and Trust & Safety.
Google staffers have circulated an internal Google doc tracking company job cuts, crowdsourced from internal memos and employee testimonies.
Employees say Google has been making rolling cuts over the past few months, though many were much smaller and more surgical than the large cuts Google made in January 2023.
Across the tech industry, companies such as Amazon and Microsoft that conducted sweeping layoffs a few years ago have been making recurring smaller reductions.
A Google spokesperson said fewer than 200 roles were affected 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, said 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 group, which serves the company’s bigger advertising clients. The document cited a memo announcing that 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 as Gemini. It said an unknown number of employees were cut from the Trust & Safety group, citing a memo describing some jobs as being “redeployed.” A spokesperson said the company intended to grow the Trust & 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 of 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, such as Amazon, have 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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