The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
You work for google because you make insane money and have cachet you can take anywhere and get hired instantly. Hell, you can pull in 10 million funding for your startup idea if you like. Or just retire, get a boat, go sailing.<p>Of course all of this had to go bad. Come on now. Stop whining already.<p>I work in the IT sewer fighting rats. I will <i>always</i> have work. I'm filthy and I smell bad, but I'm doing fine, and no, I don't sit around wringing my hands and thinking, <i>but what will become of our beloved and sacred google</i>? I could not possibly give a shit about google. But maybe someday I'll get a fucking boat.