Recently, the news that Google has laid off key teams such as Flutter, Dart and Python has been widely spread on social media. In this regard, Google will use the external media TechCrunch confirms The company has indeed made layoffs, but did not disclose the specific team, role and number of layoffs.
Google spokesman Alex Garc í a-Kummert said:
"As we said before, we are responsible for investing in the company's most important priorities and major opportunities in the future. In order to let us better seize these opportunities, from the second half of 2023 to 2024, many of our teams have made changes to improve efficiency, work better, eliminate hierarchy, and adjust resources to the most important product priorities. Through these measures, we are simplifying our structure, giving employees more opportunities to engage in the most innovative and important progress and the company's biggest priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and hierarchy. "
However, Google clarified that this layoff is not a layoff across the company, but a reorganization in the normal course of business, and the affected employees will be able to apply for other vacant positions at Google. They will provide support to all affected employees according to local requirements, and provide them with time to find different positions in Google or other places to obtain reemployment services and severance pay.
A PM from Flutter and Dart posted on the X platform that this layoff has affected many teams, and "many great projects have lost staff".
Google PM Kevin Moore wrote in the Flutter development community on Reddit: "We are very sad, but we are still working hard for I/O and future work. Flutter and Dart are not affected more or less than other teams. We know that you are very concerned about this project and team, as well as the awesome ecosystem we have built together You bet on Flutter and Dart. So do I. So does Google. "
Google also said to TechCrunch that Flutter will share new updates at the I/O conference in May this year.
Although Google did not specify the number of layoffs, some of its layoffs may have been confirmed in the WARN notice submitted on April 24. WARN， The California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice Act requires employers with more than 100 employees to send a notice 60 days before layoff. In this document, Google said it would cut 50 employees in three locations in Sunnyvale.
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