A Google engineer laid off after over 16 ½ years at the firm said in a LinkedIn post that the tech giant viewed staff as

An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google says 'faceless' tech giants see staff as '100% disposable'

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2023-01-23 20:00:11

A Google engineer laid off after over 16 ½ years at the firm said in a LinkedIn post that the tech giant viewed staff as "100% disposable."

Justin Moore, an engineering manager at Google, was one of the 12,000 people affected by Google's layoffs last week. Moore wrote that he found out he had been laid off via an automated account deactivation at 3:00 a.m.

He said he hadn't received any other "information" or "communication" about being let go. Even if he did receive communication, he was unable to access it because of the deactivation.

"This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers — especially big, faceless ones like Google — see you as 100% disposable," Moore said.

Moore said his experience at Google had been "(largely) wonderful" and that he was proud of the work he had done around the world.

He started out as a senior software engineer at the company in 2006 and progressed to the position of software-engineering manager in 2019, according to his LinkedIn profile.