A number of on-line information retailers report that Google laid off its whole Python language staff. Nonetheless, Google denied that the layoffs have been company-wide when requested in regards to the destiny of the staff.
Experiences of the Python staff’s dismissal have proven up in Reddit, Hacker Information, and social.coop. “Google’s Python staff was a small staff, most of which have been additionally on the Python steering council or core Python builders,” one commenter stated in Hacker Information. “These individuals had a long time of expertise in Python. Their data and group connections [are] irreplaceable.”
Python has grow to be an more and more fashionable programming language lately, with AI turning into a very crucial utilization.
Google stated the motion taken was not a company-wide layoff, in response to an InfoWorld inquiry April 29. “We’re responsibly investing in our firm’s greatest priorities and the numerous alternatives forward. To finest place us for these alternatives, all through the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a variety of our groups made modifications to grow to be extra environment friendly and work higher, take away layers, and align their sources to their greatest product priorities,” a Google spokesperson stated. “By this, we’re simplifying our constructions to present workers extra alternative to work on our most modern and necessary advances and our greatest firm priorities, whereas lowering paperwork and layers.”
The Google spokesperson emphasised that this was not a company-wide layoff. Re-organizations are a part of the conventional course of enterprise and these selections are made on the staff stage, the spokesperson stated. Impacted workers will have the ability to apply for open roles at Google.
In the meantime the corporate continues to put money into developer merchandise. Updates to the Flutter UI toolkit will probably be introduced at the Google I/O convention in two weeks, Google stated.
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