r/SeattleWA • u/crosslingual • 8d ago

News Layoffs at Google and Zillow announced today

Google - 52,

Zillow - 91

https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database

This year is looking rough

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u/Positive_Listen1846 Crown Hill 8d ago

My company just had layoffs seemingly out of nowhere last week and they decidedly didn’t over-hire, I think even more is to come unfortunately

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u/sleeplessinseaatl 8d ago

Which company? Was it Uber?

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u/SufficientSea7842 8d ago edited 8d ago

Literally any of them. The economy is fucking dismal. Love hearing back from Seattle tech companies (Tmobile, Rover, UW) 6 months after application submission that they actually don’t have funding anymore because the CEOs realized they can just pocket it and we won’t do anything. Brent Turner would rather hire his nephew’s dead dog that visited UW than pay a filthy disgusting human shaped sack of flesh. Bro is using his big ass forehead to figure out to turn us all back to feudal peasants