[gresrun]

"Rich asshole makes demeaning comments about situations they don't know" More at 11.

Seriously though, how out-of-touch do you have to be to think that entire organizations full of smart people are so incompetent as to have 100% bloat?

  Could you lay off 50% of Google today and still have a functional, competitive product tomorrow? Yes.

  Would you still have a functional, competitive product in 2 years? No.

Engineers are building and maintaining the product, SREs are keeping the jobs, servers and infrastructure humming, sales is bringing in new clients and keep existing clients happy, marketing is... OK maybe Google does need a marketing overhaul...

Deep cuts will also signal to employees and competitors that blood is in the water. Any remaining loyalty would evaporate and MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, & META would all be eager to scoop up that talent to build competing products to Google Search & Ads and bolster their cloud & AI offerings.

Disclosure: Google employee

[bdcravens]

How much does the Google+ or Stadia codebase contribute to today's product?