Google Jan 2023 Layoffs: By Role and Level

By Chris Talley, and Steven Zhang

Some tech companies have provided very detailed information regarding exactly which roles, levels, and teams have been affected by layoffs. So the WARNTracker team set out to process this data and provide some insight by tagging thousands of entries with their corresponding levels (e.g. L5/L6/etc) and functions (engineering, HR, etc).

The following analysis covers roles at Google from layoffs performed in January 2023. These are taken from the California WARN notices, so they only reflect employees based in California.

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Check out these breakdowns and insights from the analysis!

Some interesting takeaways:

Nobody at any level is safe from layoffs, but...

Twitter and Google both laid off distinguished engineers
Google laid off several VPs
Meta laid off one VP
However, it does appear that ICs are much more heavily impacted than managers (See this blog post for more)

The quality and granularity of detail provided by companies varies widely

Meta provided detailed information about the job titles, teams, and levels of each affected California employee
Salesforce, on the other hand, only provided he overall business unit name for affected employees

Amazon layoffs appeared to be less engineering-heavy than others

About 20% of affected Amazonians had the word “Engineer” in their title, compared to about 30% for Meta and Facebook

For more insight from these notices, check out these other WARNTracker blog posts:

Below is a partial sample of the recent WARN layoff data by role and level for Google. For access to the complete data set and/or title-level breakdowns at other companies, please fill out this form.

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#	📛 Title	# Laid off	🏢 Facility/Building name	Layoff Date	Level	City	Company
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