There was an interesting article on Forbes about layoffs at Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
Many seem to be surprised by these layoffs at the fantastic four.
The Forbes article (spoiler alert) suggests that a partial factor might be HR automation that rendered HR humans at Google redundant. << link to the aforementioned article
I’d like to offer up another real reason.
Google and the gang are run by people. People are idiots and you can’t trust them.
Ergo, Google is run by idiots (and algorithms) you can’t trust.
Welcome to humanity.