Google fired its entire Python team: Decision taken for cost cutting, company will hire cheap employees from outside America
Tech company Google has fired its entire Python team in the last few weeks. The company has taken this decision to hire cheap labor and cut costs. This has been revealed in the report of Free Press Journal.
According to the report, Google is planning to hire cheap employees from outside the US for cost cutting. Python is a highly sophisticated, general purpose programming language. About 10 people were working in this Google team.
Company building new team in Germany
The report states that Google is creating a new team from scratch in Munich, Germany. Earlier, less than 10 people of this team were running the entire ecosystem of Python. This team at Google was engaged in maintaining the stable version of Python, updating thousands of third party packages and developing a typechecker.
A week ago, 28 employees were fired from their jobs.
Recently the company had fired 28 employees. All these employees were protesting against a project to provide cloud services to the Israeli government and army. After this, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai, in one of his blog posts, had asked the employees to keep politics away from the workplace (office).
In this, he in a way ordered the employees to come to the office and do their work and not get involved in politics. In his note titled ‘Mission First’, Pichai said – the company’s policy and expectations are clear. There is no place for politics in office.
The company fired 12,000 people in January 2023
Google had laid off 12,000 employees in early 2023. Regarding this layoff, CEO Sundar Pichai had said that this is a challenging time for any organization. We have never faced such a turning point in the last 25 years. If no action was taken now, it would have had even more serious consequences in the future.
